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Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
6) Araby
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Andre, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano's house to pick up clothes and documents, Andre stumbles on a notebook, and it's here that Araby begins or, rather, transforms. As Andre reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano's life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves.
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Diary of a spider: a young spider discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being a spider, including how to spin webs and avoid vacuum cleaners.
Diary of a worm: a young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.
Diary of a fly: a young fly discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being an insect, including the dangers of flypaper...
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Twenty years ago, a young American hiker named Chris McCandless, the accomplished son of successful middle class parents, was found dead in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness and became the subject of the best-selling book and movie Into the Wild. Now, PBS retraces Chris McCandless' steps to try to piece together why he severed all ties with his past, burnt or gave away all his money, changed his name and headed into the Denali Wilderness....
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Dr. Pol and his team are tackling a caseload like no other. A tiny Chihuahua is immobile from a major car accident. Dr. Pol hustles to save a flailing Arabian horse. Chinchillas, guinea pigs, and geckos are keeping the Vets busy. Then, arriving after-hours is a sweet family lab with a mangled leg. Days later, the lab's housemate is rushed in with labor complications!
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Dr. Pol is back with another season as Dr. Pol and his staff wrangle animals and tackle cases at their clinic in rural Michigan. This season, they are busy as they dash from emergency farm calls to clinic visits. From performing critical surgeries on pets to delivering calves on local farms, the team will stop at nothing to make sure their clients and animals are happy and healthy.
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When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House -- both places they break into -- and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
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Diary of a worm: This fun-filled chronicle of the daily ins and outs of a loveable underground dweller shows us that a worm's life is really not so different from ours.
Anatole: An honorable little French mouse anonymously reveals his remarkably good taste in cheese and helps a cheese factory to become the best.
Frog goes to dinner: Frog causes trouble and embarrassment for the family after popping out of a boy's pocket in a fancy restaurant.
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"This DVD and the accompanying manual highlight the use of dialogue journals with deaf and hard of hearing students. The DVD includes examples of elementary, middle school, and high school students and teachers using dialogue journals and shows successful strategies used to make dialogue journals work!"--Disc surface.