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Each ScienceFlix unit will help your child hone literacy skills while bolstering his or her understanding of important science, technology, and engineering concepts. Rich multimedia, science news, careers, hands-on experiments, and projects offer a number of different ways to engage with the content.
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1) Geekerella
Author
Series
Once upon a con volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Geek girl Ellie hopes to go to ExcelsiCon Cosplay to meet the actor (closet nerd Darien) scheduled to play Federation Prince Carmindor in a reboot of the movie Starfield.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the stunning rise--and suddenly uncertain reign--of the most transformative cultural phenomenon of our time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales,...
3) War games
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
An ingenious young computer hacker unwittingly breaks into JOSHUA, the Defense Department's master war computer, bringing the superpowers close to World War III.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Author
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In a new and updated version of this best-selling book, John McDowell explores the many spiritual themes that weave throughout the Star Wars films. From the Force to the dark side, the issues discussed in the films have a moral and spiritual complexity that, if paid attention to, can help us better understand our place in the world and our relation to others and to God. George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, did not intend for his films to be mere...
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Discover the incredible untold story of one of Star Wars' most iconic characters, C-3PO, told by the man who knows him best. Now, for the very first time, Anthony Daniels will tell C-3PO's story in its entirety, from seeing the first concept images to the early stages of the final film in the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: Episode IX, and in the process, will also tell his own. This includes his encounters with movie legends such as Sir Alec Guinness,...
9) The Giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
11) The matrix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Computer hacker realizes the world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence that control us.
12) Source code
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of an experimental government program called the 'Source Code' that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last eight minutes of his life. Armed with the task of identifying the bomber of a Chicago commuter train, Colter must relive the incident over and over again, gathering clues until he can solve the mystery and prevent an even deadlier...
14) The host
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over humans' bodies and erasing their minds, a young woman risks everything to protect the people she cares about most.
15) X-Men
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A war is brewing between those with special powers ("mutants") and the rest of humanity -- and the only ones who can save the humans from certain destruction are a special group of mutants - the "X-Men." (Based on the comic series).
17) Ender's game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a gifted child, is sent to an advance military academy in outer space to prepare for future alien invasions.
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