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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new chapter in the terrifying horror series is a chilling prequel, set before the haunting of the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
Language
English
Description
"Janey is a shy good girl. Lynne is a cool rock chick. But when the two friends scheme to get Janey on television's biggest after-school dance show, they find themselves on a wild adventure filled with cute boys, hot dancing, prudish nuns, mean rich kids, parents that just don't understand, and girls doing what they know best ... just having FUN!"--Container.
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her; Anne, now a young woman, has become a teacher and dreams of meeting her ideal man; After a series of disappointments, Anne and her husband Gilbert return to Avonlea in search of happiness, but soon face the challenges of war when newly enlisted...
4) True grit
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
6) Freaky
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler is just trying to survive high school when she becomes the newest target of the Butcher, her town's infamous serial killer. The Butcher's mystical ancient dagger causes him and Millie to wake up in each other's bodies, and Millie learns that she has just 24 hours to get her body back before it is permanent. While Millie races against the clock to reverse the curse, the Butcher discovers that having a female body is...
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
[English dialogue version].
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every journey has to come to a close at some point, and while it's not a perfect exit for Katniss, it's one where she gets to put her bow, arrow and big heart to good use."--USA Today.
"The acting and production values are still well above grade, and Lawrence skillfully holds the center, letting everything the skeletal dialogue doesn't say play across her face."--Entertainment Weekly.
"Counters the meager helpings offered by most teen-driven entertainment...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Dottie 'Doc' McStuffins is a six-year-old girl who has a special secret. She is able to talk to toys and stuffed animals. Doc also likes to help others. She heals and tends to the toys and stuffed animals that need help, and she fixes all their 'boo-boos.' Whatever the problem, the Doc is always in.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her aunt and uncle, she stumbles upon an old mansion surrounded by marshes, and the mysterious young girl, Marnie, who lives there. The two girls instantly form a unique connection and friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As the days go by, a nearly magnetic pull draws Anna back to the Marsh house again and again, and she begins to piece together the truth surrounding...
12) Girlhood
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never...
13) Piggy
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
In rural Spain, an overweight girl bullied by a clique of mean girls witnesses her tormentors being kidnapped by a stranger.
14) Amazing racer
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her father leaves a teenage girl without a family, she becomes lost in her own anger and sadness. Her family doctor informs her that her father had a secret, that the mother she never knew was alive and well. When she travels to meet her, she befriends a horse trainer and discovers that in caring for the horse, she is able to overcome her hardships and emotional trauma. Through the victories and new friendships she forms,...
16) Sydney White
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In a new spin on an old story, a tomboy joins a group of seven geeky outcasts, and wages war on her sorority sisters and the reigning campus queen to try and change the social cliques of the college.
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley, where for generations the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time.
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener is a junior high geek who just wants to be popular. Teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Dawn develops an improbable plan to seduce the star of a high-school garage band.
19) Murina
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl living with her parents on a remote island and longing for independence and freedom sees her way out in the arrival of an old family friend.
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