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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
"Es la hora. Ya no hay vuelta atrás. Los juegos van a comenzar. Los tributos deben salir a la Arena y ... luchar por sobrevivir. Ganar significa...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"La historia de hombres y mujeres que cambiaron nuestra historia. Desde los albores de la Independencia con el movimiento de Miguel Hidalgo hasta su consumación por Agustín de Iturbide..."-- Envase.
Dramatic film about "The history of men and women who changed our [Mexican] history. Since the dawn of Independence with the movement of Miguel Hidalgo to its consummation by Agustín de Iturbide ..." - Container.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to...
5) The TV Set
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
TV writer Mike Klein is in the Prime Time of his life: his show just got picked up by a network, his favorite actor is set to star, and his wife is about to have a baby. But even though his wife is sure to deliver, the network president might not. After locking horns with the steely suit, the hapless Mike must scramble to maintain creative control, before his beloved project is altered irrevocably, and his entire career winds up in permanent hiatus....
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Lanie does puff pieces on the nightly news. Ready to take on the national news, her boss suggests she hone her skills with ace cameraman Pete. Her comfortable, shallow existence begins to change the moment she and Pete do a story on Prophet Jack, a soothsayer who spouts unusually accurate predictions to passers-by in exchange for spare change. He predicts that Lanie will not get her cushy promotion, in fact, he says she'll die within a week. When...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Primetime Emmy Award winner Tina Fey is back as Liz Lemon, the struggling TGS writer who seems to have found a new groove along with M&M pancake-filled domestic bliss. But with GE executive Jack Donaghy scheming his way through Kabletown, Tracy Jordan finding his voice as an idiot, Jenna Maroney taking her love life to new levels of extreme and NBC Page Kenneth Parcell being, well, Kenneth, will the chaos be too much for this new and improved Liz...
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America can't seem to get enough of the wildly popular television singing contest American Dreamz, which stars a self-aggrandizing and self-loathing host who is ever on the lookout for the next insta-celebrity. His latest crop of hopefuls includes a conniving steel magnolia with a devoted, dopey veteran boyfriend and a recent immigrant who just happens to be a bumbling, show tune singing, would-be terrorist awaiting activation. When both make it to...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Go behind-the-scenes of a live sketch comedy show. Watch as Jack comes back to GE; Liz gets a visit from an adoption agency caseworker; Liz sits next to Oprah on her flight from Chicago to New York; Tracy and Jenna conduct a 'social experiment;' Jack hooks up with Liz's psycho ex-roommate; Liz thinks she has found the perfect mate; Don Geiss wakes from his coma; Jack falls in love with his mother's nurse; Liz has a disastrous first date; Jack gets...
11) En llamas
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Contra todo pronóstico, Katniss Everdeen ha ganado los Juegos del Hambre anuales junto con el otro tributo de su distrito, Peeta Mellark. Pero fue una victoria conseguida mediante...
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
In the complete seventh and final season of the award-winning comedy 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) is trying to take over KableTown even if he destroys the company attempting it. Meanwhile, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) is striving to keep her uncharacteristically blissfull personal life in balance with her chaotic career. Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer), "life-long NBC devotee, temporary janitor, and immortal creature not of this world" tends to the...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Lydia Quixano Pérez vive en Acapulco, México, donde lleva su librería. Tiene un hijo, Luca, el amor de su vida, y un maravilloso esposo que es periodista. Y aunque la vida en Acapulco comienza a agrietarse debido a los cárteles de la droga, su vida es confortable. Un día llega un hombre a la librería y compra cuatro libros, entre los que se encuentran dos de las obras favoritas de Lydia, que piensa que nunca va a vender. Javier es erudito, encantador,...
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