Kim Wayans
Author
Series
Amy Hodgepodge volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Attending a "regular" school for the first time, former homeschooler Amy, whose family is racially mixed, meets new friends who celebrate their differences and include Amy in their song and dance routine for the upcoming talent show.
Author
Series
Amy Hodgepodge volume 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Amy realizes her dream of playing sports when she joins the basketball league, and secret practices with Rusty improve her skills but her friends, believing she still plays badly, will not pass her the ball.
Author
Series
Amy Hodgepodge volume 6
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
When Amy's fourth-grade class must come up with a "green" project, they learn about community activism and fund-raising from Amy's visiting Grandmother Hodges as they raise money to help revitalize a community garden.
Author
Series
Amy Hodgepodge volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Amy is very excited about the special sleepover she has planned for her tenth birthday until her friends get the chance to go to a concert the same night, and meanwhile, she worries that her family will be moving again.
Author
Series
Amy Hodgepodge volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
When her class goes on a wilderness overnight trip, fourth-grader Amy worries about how she will fare since she has never gone camping.
Author
Series
Amy Hodgepodge volume 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Can a secret break up the friendship of five fourth-grade girls and prevent them from finishing an art project?
7) Pariah
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The revelatory and assured feature debut by Dee Rees is a coming-of-age tale of a queer Black woman navigating the expression of her gender and sexual identities, built around a beautifully layered performance from Adepero Oduye.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most prominent agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU, who returns to help the team solve new cases, while pursuing some unfinished business of his own. Each member brings his or her own area of expertise to the table as they pinpoint predators' motivations...
9) Floundering
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
John Boyz lives close to where they film Baywatch but his life is full of bizarre friends, sweaty sex, pistol welding gangsters, bungling bureacrats, police fanatics, revoluntionaries and weirdos. He just wants a little peace of mind.
10) Dance flick
Language
English
Description
Sweet, innocent Megan's ballet dreams are shattered when she is forced to attend an inner-city high school where she meets Thomas, a young hip-hop dancer from the wrong side of the tracks. With a new crew of friends, this suburban girl with no street 'cred,' has to step up her game and achieve her dreams in the mother of all dance-offs.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This outrageous comedy hit had critics and audiences roaring with laughter! From block parties and beepers to high tops and high-powered weapons, it's everything that's funny about growing up in the 'hood ... the Wayans Brothers' neighborhood, that is! Get ready for a good time, because there are plenty of laughs in this neighborhood!
13) Juwanna Mann
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
After he's kicked out the league, basketball bad boy Jamal Jeffries uses sass, hoop talent and the right shade of lipstick to transform himself into women's basketball league superstar Juwanna Mann. He's a man in a womens basketball world ... and he just might become a better person because of it.
14) Ray Meets Helen
Author
Language
English
Description
In bizarre, unrelated turns of events, two strangers Ray (Keith Carradine) and Helen (Sondra Locke) each happen upon large sums of money which give them the chance to re-invent themselves.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The hurt locker: US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. With only thirty-nine days left on their current deployment, members of Bravo Company will have to face their own internal issues as they work, always aware that anyone they encounter may be bombers themselves.
Lost in translation: A middle-aged actor and the wife of a workaholic...