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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to "date" their introverted nineteen-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.
3) Born to kill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sam seems like a perfectly normal sixteen-year-old when you meet him. But his mom knows otherwise. How long can she keep a devastating secret from her son? And what might go wrong if she tells him the truth? The consequences are harrowing when falling in love for the first time collides with a psychopathic urge to kill.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For nine-year-old Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science is not always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For 12 years on The Big Bang Theory, audiences have come to know the iconic, eccentric and extraordinary Sheldon Cooper. This comedy gives us the chance to meet him as an 11-year-old growing up in East Texas, as he embarks on his innocent, awkward and hopeful journey toward the man he will become.
6) Powder
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as Powder struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do extraordinary things.
7) Pinocchio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Description
Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For nine-year-old Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science is not always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
9) Good boys
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being invited to his first kissing party, twelve-year-old Max is panicking because he doesn't know how to kiss. Eager for some pointers, Max and his best friends Thor and Lucas decide to use Max's dad's drone to spy on a teenage couple making out next door. But when things go ridiculously wrong, the drone is destroyed. Desperate to replace it before Max's dad gets home, the boys skip school and set off on an odyssey of epically bad decisions....
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When an advanced canine and his adopted son use their time traveling WABAC machine, events in history spiral out of control to disastrous and comical results. It's up to this most unexpected of father-son teams to somehow put things back on track before the space-time continuum is irreparably destroyed.
"...It's hard to resist the bespectacled brainiac dog and his beloved boy."--USA Today.
"A smart, funny and beautifully designed feature ..."--New...
11) The snowman
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A young boy's snowman comes to life on Christmas Eve and takes him to meet Santa Claus at the North Pole.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the new semester, Sheldon attends his first comic con and gets a group of nerdy friends while Missy begins questioning everything -- including religion and sex -- while Georgie takes a job at Meemaw's new laundromat-slash-gambling-den and the parents struggle at work and home.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It follows the exploits of eleven-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.
14) 9 bullets
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents2 murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss, who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For young Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science isn't always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
17) The wretched
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Following his parents' separation, a rebellious teenage boy is sent to live with his father for the summer and work at the local marina to gain some form of discipline. The idyllic tourist town offers little solace for him, however, and Ben's problems grow increasingly disturbing when he makes a chilling discovery about the family renting the house next door.
18) The black phone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.
20) Cry Macho
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1978, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. Crossing rural Mexico on their way back to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
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