As a lonely little boy growing up in an orphanage, Zak has learned to resent the materialistic trappings and family-oriented atmosphere of Christmas. But when Zak saves a defective toy robot from being destroyed, the two misfit outsiders embark on a journey that teaches them the true meaning of the holiday in this animated Christmas fable.DVD Features:Region (unknown)Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Surround - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Behind the Scenes - 1. Test Renders Featurette - 1.Meet the Wobots Trailers InterviewsInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Production Art Storyboards Character ProfilesDVD-ROM: Weblinks
My Dad Is Awesome
A young boy describes the many things that make his father special. For example, his dad can juggle, cook, roller skate, and carry six kids and a dog on his strong back. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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Last Days of Summer
This novel, composed of news clippings, letters, telegrams, report cards, and other bits and pieces, tells the story of Joey Margolis, a Jewish boy growing up in an Italian neighborhood in 1940s Brooklyn. In addition to anti-Semitism, Joey must cope with his absent father, his parents' impending divorce, and the loss of his best friend. His only consolation is a pen-pal relationship with his idol, Charley Banks of the New York Giants.
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History
History
was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread.
The central character in this powerful and unforgiving novel is Ida Mancuso, a schoolteacher whose husband has died and whose feckless teenage son treats the war as his playground. A German soldier on his way to North Africa rapes her, falls in love with her, and leaves her pregnant with a boy whose survival becomes Ida's passion.
Around these two other characters come and go, each caught up by the war which is like a river in flood. We catch glimpses of bombing raids, street crimes, a cattle car from which human cries emerge, an Italian...
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Demon in My View
High school student Jessica has a secret: she's just published a novel about vampires under a pen name. Unfortunately, Jessica's success in the publishing world is not matched by success in the high school social system. Virtually friendless, Jessica is shocked when two new students seem to want nothing more than her time and attention. One of the students, a handsome boy named Alex, seems very familiar to Jessica--in fact, he seems almost identical to a vampire character from her newly published novel. Could Alex actually be one of Jessica's imagined characters come to life?
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Winter Danger
A young pioneer boy must adjust to settled frontier life when his father leaves him with relatives and returns to the woods.
Winter Danger
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