Octavia Spencer
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.
2) Ma
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a reclusive woman buys alcohol for several teenagers and invites them to have a party at her house, she becomes more involved in their lives with sinister consequences.
5) The Witches
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The tale of a young orphaned boy and his grandmother who encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches at a seaside resort where the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe, undercover, to carry out her nefarious plans.
6) Luce
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this smart psychological thriller, a couple begins to question their idealized image of their adopted son when one of his teachers shows them a troubling essay he wrote.
8) Luce
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
LUCE is a smart psychological thriller about an adopted all–star student and athlete, whose reputation is called into question when his teacher makes an alarming discovery.
9) The shack
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After the presumed death of his daughter, a man receives a letter he suspects is from God, telling him to return to the Shack where his daughter may have been murdered.
10) Hidden figures
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s.
11) A Kid Like Jake
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Claire Danes, Jim Parsons, Priyanka Chopra and Octavia Spencer star in this funny and moving look at parents struggling with how to raise their nonconforming child.
12) The help
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After a white woman graduates from college in the 1960s, she returns to her home in Jackson, Mississippi and begins her writing career by interviewing the African-American servants in her neighborhood and sharing their stories with the public.
13) The Help
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness...
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness...