Joel Grey
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Valdez is Coming: A Mexican-American sheriff must resort to violence against a powerful rancher in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.
The Ride Back: A sheriff and his prisoner find that they need each others help to survive.
Buffalo Bill and the Indians: A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West...
3) Cabaret
Pub. Date
1972.
Description
A musical drama about an American girl who dreams of becoming a star while working as a singer in a third-rate cabaret in Germany on the eve of Hitler's rise to power.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.5 - AR Pts: 25
Description
The wayward traveler -- Lemuel Gulliver -- ends up on a series of bizarrely populated islands. First he is a giant among little people, but then sees the situation reversed when he's surrounded by giants twelve times his size. Next he finds himself in the clouds, in a society of devoted but ultimately hapless mathematicians. Lastly, his journey brings him to an island where incredibly noble horses must deal with a race of uncouth, reviled ape-men:...
Pub. Date
1974,1975,1976,1979
Description
Disc 1: Frosty's Winter Wonderland / Frosty's kind of lonely, so the kids think of making him a wife, Crystal. But will Jack Frost let them be happy? Disc 2: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas / When a town learns that Santa Claus has struck it off his delivery schedule due to an insulting letter, a way must be found to change his mind. Disc 3: The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow / A young shepherd, Lucas (David Kelley), is blinded...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A rewriting of the Wizard of Oz from the Wicked Witch of the West's perspective. She's really a good witch who has a perfectly good explanation for all the seemingly evil things she seemed to have done. If only you knew the circumstances, you'd like her, really you would.
9) Cabaret
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Selma, a Czechoslovakian immigrant, is a single mother working in a factory in rural America circa 1964. She is also afflicted by a hereditary disease, which will cost her her sight. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The Sound of Music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals...