Wilson III, William W. (Executive Producer), & Fywell, Tim (Director). (2005). Ice Princess [Motion picture]. US: Walt Disney Studios.
17-year-old physics whiz Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) is urged by her physics teacher to work on a physics project over the summer for presentation to Harvard. As a skater, Casey decides on a project that shows the [...]
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Ice Princess [DVD] 2005
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Seventeen Magazine – September 2007
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Seventeen Magazine, September 2007
The content of Seventeen includes information and advice about fashion and trends, celebrities, beauty – skincare, hair and make-up – and lifestyles. It also has a health section about nutrition and exercise, a sex and body section, and quizzes and horoscopes. The article length is kept deliberately brief, high quality photographs emphasize [...]
Family Guy – Blue Harvest
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MacFarlane, S. (September 23, 2007). Blue Harvest, Family Guy. Fox.
Family Guy is a prime example of a cult cartoon. The show was originally cancelled after it’s third season, only to come back three years later when there was enough a following to get it back on the air. In this sixth season premeire, the writers [...]
Beauty and the Geek
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Kutcher, A., Goldberg, J., & Santora, N. (2005-present). Beauty and the Geek. The CW.
This Reality show teams up eight female beauties and eight male geeks in what is called “The Ultimate Social Experiment.” Each team consists of a male geek and a female beauty. Throughout the season the beauties and the geeks compete against the [...]
Myspace.com – a place for friends
Posted in non-literature media, visual, web site on December 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
(2003-2007). Myspace.com: a place for friends. Retrieved December 6, 2007 from http://www.myspace.com.
Myspace is a place where users can create profiles and do a variety of other things such as, messaging other users, adding friends, creating bulletin posts, listen to music, post pictures and potentially dozens of other things. Myspace users have a main profile and [...]
Last.fm – the social music revolution.
Posted in audio, music, non-literature media, visual, web site on December 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Miller, F., Stiksel, M., & Jones, R. (2002-2007). Last.fm – The Social Music Revolution. Retrieved December 6, 2007 from http://www.last.fm.
This revolutionary site allows users to download a program that will track and log songs that they listen to with certain media players already installed on the computer. Users can set up profiles where they can [...]
The Sandman (Vol. 2): The Doll’s House – Neil Gaiman
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Gaiman, N. (1995). The Sandman (Vol. 2): The Doll’s House. New York: DC Comics.
Recommendation source: The second volume of a Graphic Novel I previously enjoyed
Reading level: Grades 10-12
Brief summary: This second installment of the Sandman Graphic Novels is just as excellent as it’s predecessor. The themes of this series are slightly more mature and [...]
The Sandman (Vol. 1): Preludes and Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman
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Gaiman, Neil. (1995). The Sandman (Vol. 1): Preludes and Nocturnes. New York: DC Comics.
Recommendation source: A librarian at the Warwick Public Library
Reading level: Grades 10-12
Brief summary: An excellent graphic novel intended for an older audience. In this first volume, the reader is introduced to a variety of characters that are suffering because Dream has been [...]
Death Note (Volume 2) – Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata
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Ohba, Tsugumi & Obata, Takeshi. (2005). Death Note (Volume 2). San Francisco: VIZ Media LLC.
Recommendation source: The following volume of a previous item choice that I enjoyed
Reading level: Grade 9+
Brief summary: Light is learning more about the uses of the Death God’s notebook and he is truly testing the limits of it’s power. He knows [...]
Death Note (Volume 1) – Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata
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Ohba, Tsugumi & Obata, Takeshi. (2005). Death Note (Volume 1). San Francisco: VIZ Media LLC.
Recommendation source: I watched the anime videos and enjoyed it so the novelization seemed to be a good place to find my first manga.
Reading level: Grades 9+
Brief summary: Light Yagami is a star pupil in Japan, always coming in at the [...]
American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
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Yang, Gene Luen. (2006). American Born Chinese. New York: First Second.
Recommendation source: Classmates from LSC 531, book promotions project
Awards: 2007 Printz award
Reading level: Grade 7+
Brief summary: American Born Chinese tells the story of Jin Wang, a Chinese-American boy trying to fit in at his predominantly white school. Intelligent,
creative, and extremely funny, this book will [...]
