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101) Napoleon Dynamite
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Napoleon Dynamite, the epitome of a nerd with his fuzzy red hair and constant uniform of moon boots, takes a break from drawing mythical monsters and inventing out-of-state girlfriends to help new friend Pedro mount a campaign against Summer, a popular cheerleader, for student body president.
104) Final destination
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When a teen has a premonition that the plane he's just boarded is doomed, he panics. He and five friends leave the plane before it crashes but, one by one, they too begin to die.
105) The karate kid
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Dre Parker finds himself in China after his mother's latest career move. He and classmate Mei Ying immediately fall for each other, but cultural differences make this friendship impossible. Even worse, his feelings make an enemy of class bully, Cheng who is quite adept at kung fu. Dre turns to maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a kung fu master and learns that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm. However, Dre realizes...
106) Prom night
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Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, but when the night turns deadly, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer.
107) Under the bridge
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Presents an account of the evensts leading up to the discovery of a murdered fourteen-year-old girl in a small town in Victoria, British Columbia.
108) The moth diaries
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Teenaged Rebecca becomes suspicious of Ernessa, the new gi l at her boarding school, and after a series of tragedies occur on campus, Rebecca comes to believe her new classmate is a vampire.
109) 10th anniversary
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Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
110) The blind side
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Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
111) Power play
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The Keepers have many puzzles to solve: Have the Overtakers created their own holograms? Have they found a way to "jump" from the Virtual Maintenance Network onto the Internet, and if so, what does that mean for the safety of the Parks, and the reach and impact of the Overtakers? Trouble looms as the Kingdom Keepers struggle to differentiate friend from foe.
112) The amateur marriage
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Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in the Polish quarter of Baltimore, he was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. Pauline, impulsive, volatile, impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious and judgmental, proceeds deliberately. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll....
113) Whatever works
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Boris Yellnikoff is a lifelong New York resident who attempts to impress his ideologies of religion, relationships, and the randomness of existence onto anyone who will listen. But when he begrudgingly allows Melodie St. Ann Celestine, a naïve Mississippi runaway, to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes to...
114) Grease
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During their summer vacation, Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson meet at a beach. Sandy enrolls at Rydell High School, where Danny is a student. Sandy's new friend Frenchy is a member of the schoolgirl clique 'The Pink Ladies.' Danny is the leader of the 'The T-Birds' gang. Kenickie is his second-in-command. Neither Danny or Sandy know they are attending the same school. The Pink Ladies decide to reunite Danny and Sandy, but Danny wants to protect his cool...
115) Girl in translation
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Overview: Introducing a fresh, exciting new voice, an inspiring debut about a Chinese immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the...
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While some journeys end, others are just beginning. Season Fourteen of Heartland finds horses healing Amy as much as Amy heals horses. While Amy struggles with a life-changing challenge, the entire town of Hudson will have to deal with an unexpected disaster that threatens to derail Lou's first term as mayor. But, the family will pull through together and be stronger as a result. Family is courage, and times change.
117) Middlesex
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Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
118) Ben 10: alien swarm
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Follow teenage hero Ben Tennyson as he breaks ranks from the Plumbers (a secret organization that battles alien forces) to help Elena, a mysterious young woman, uncover an alien threat to our world. Joining him on his adventures are Gwen and Kevin, super-powered heroes in their own right, who must trust each other's instincts to help save the day.
119) Castle of refuge
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In medieval England, nineteen-year-old Audrey, the daughter of English nobility and facially scarred by her abusive, mentally ill sister, seeks God's protection when she runs away from an arranged marriage proposal, to find true love, safety, and a purpose to her life.
120) The usual rules
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A novel about a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself living with her father, across the country from her native Brooklyn, coping with her mother's violent death in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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