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121) Jackie Robinson
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Learn about the life and career of Jackie Robinson, and what his first game playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers was an historic event.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who was Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and sometime nanny for thirteen years describes her witness to significant historical events and the lessons about life and love she learned from the beloved First Lady.
"'I was really no more than a child when Jacqueline Kennedy came into my life, and made me part of hers.' In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from Ireland when she...
123) Jackie Oh!
Author
Publisher
L. Stuart
Pub. Date
©1978
Language
English
Description
This unauthorized biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis examines her family background, her triumph as First Lady, and her stormy and controversial marriage to Aristotle Onassis and features numerous candid photographs.
124) Jackie & me
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jack Frost (1998): On the verge of making it big, long-struggling musician Jack Frost suddenly realizes he's missing something vital: time with his wife and young son Charlie. But before Jack can make up for lost time, he swerves off an icy mountain road. Then, one cold winter's night, Jack magically returns as a walking, talking, ski-slope-shredding snowman. Determined to be the father he always wanted to be, Jack embarks on a quest to show Charlie...
126) Jack Frost
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
On the verge of making it big, long-struggling musician Jack Frost suddenly realizes he's missing something vital: time with his wife and young son Charlie. But before Jack can make up for lost time, he swerves off an icy mountain road. Then, one cold winter's night, Jack magically returns as a walking, talking, ski-slope-shredding snowman. Determined to be the father he always wanted to be, Jack embarks on a quest to show Charlie that when it comes...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Biography of the colorful American writer who had been an oyster pirate, a seal hunter, a mill worker, a hobo, and a political activist before becoming a popular author at the age of twenty-nine.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit--and the insidious ways this realm harms us all"--
Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies; we dream of the jackpot, the life-altering payday, in whatever form that takes. But rarely do we follow the fantasy to its conclusion: to ponder the social, psychological, and societal downsides of...
129) Jackrabbit smile
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair--Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough-as-nails black gay Vietnam vet and Republican--but they're the closest friend either of them has in the world. Hap is celebrating his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, Brett (who is also Hap and Leonard's boss), when their backyard barbecue is interrupted by a couple of Pentecostal white supremacists. They're not too happy to see Leonard, and no...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping, full-color comic book biography tells the complete life story of Jack Kirby, co-creator of some of the most enduring superheroes and villains of the twentieth century for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and more. Critically acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Scioli breathes visual life into Kirby's life story--from his days growing up in New York during the Great Depression and discovering a love for science fiction and cartoons to his time...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1947, Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking down baseball's decades-old color line and changing the face of the game forever. Now, in this intimate portrait, Robinson's widow, Rachel, tells her husband's story - and that of her life with him - from her unique perspective. But the tale of Jackie Robinson doesn't begin and end with baseball. It includes family, friends, and - after retirement - the...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Zelda Jackson - or Jackie - was born in Pittsburgh in 1911 and discovered early on that she could create any adventure. A field she could run through as far as her hand could draw. An ocean she could color as blue as she liked. As she grew, Jackie put her artistic talents to use, doodling and chronicling daily life for her high school yearbook. But she was already deaming of bigger things. Jackie would go on to create cartoon characters from the...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jackrabbit McCabe's unusually long legs have made him the fastest thing around, and he uses his speed for everything from racing against horses to fetching the doctor, but when the electric telegraph arrives in Windy Flats, Jackrabbit may have met his match.
136) Jackie Robinson
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In an era of discrimination, Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's race barrier. Facing harassment, he stayed focused on the game, becoming the MLB Rookie of the Year in 1947 and later a baseball legend"--
137) Jackass: the movie
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003], ©2002.
Language
English
Description
A crew of young men perform a variety of strange, painful, and often humiliating stunts for the amusement of themselves and those around them, including crawling across dozens of mousetraps while wearing rodent make-up, being rolled down bowling lanes on skateboards, racing in golf carts across an ancient driving range, giving themselves self-inflicted paper cuts, making snow cones out of urine, tightrope walking over live alligators, using uninstalled...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The story is riveting and legendary: At a time when segregation ruled American life, a sports experiment changed history. Did Jackie Robinson have enough talent, courage, and tolerance to break the color line in major league baseball? The world watched as Robinson signed his contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Racist taunts and jeers exploded from the stands, but Robinson kept his focus on the game. For the rest of his life, Robinson continued to...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A clever, charmingly quirky portrayal of painter Jackson Pollock - and the first in a series of picture-book biographies of contemporary artists Jackson Pollock was unlike any other painter. Instead of sitting in front of an easel with brushes, he poured paint over canvases rolled-out across the floor, moving, splashing, and making the vivid liquid run with energy and rhythm. Pollock's story is told here with wit and eccentricity, perfectly paired...
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