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2) Eden Lake
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A horror thriller about modern youth gone wild. Nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve, escape for a romantic weekend away. Steve, planning to propose, has found an idyllic setting: a remote lake enclosed by woodlands and seemingly deserted. The couple's peace is shattered when a gang of obnoxious kids encircles their campsite. Reveling in provoking the adults, the gang steals the couple's belongings and vandalizes their car leaving them completely...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"In the United States, the conversation about teen incarceration has moved from one extreme to another. For centuries, execution of juvenile offenders was legal. By the twenty-first century, the US Supreme Court had moved closer to banning all executions of minors, regardless of the severity of the crime. Since the 1990s, the US juvenile justice system has moved away from harsh punishment and toward alternative evidence-based models that include education,...
5) Harry Brown
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Brown lives in a world that has been taken over by drug dealers and gangsters. A world where killing is a way of life, and the police have lost all control. But when his only companion and best friend is senselessly murdered just feet from his own apartment, Harry takes matters into his own hands. Utilizing the skills he learned while fighting the IRA, Harry takes on these hooligans as he doles out his own form of justice.
6) Holes
Author
Series
Appears on list
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
7) Scar Island
Author
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Since his mother died thirteen-year-old Troy has been skipping school and hanging out with the wrong crowd, and now he and his friend Foster have been sentenced to work in the local Philadelphia stables; at first he is apprehensive around the horses, but soon he bonds with a mare named Chance, and discovers the sport of polo--but also makes some new enemies.
12) Reefer madness
Series
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (67 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lurid depiction of the horrors of marijuana use.
Author
Formats
Description
"In a clear-eyed indictment of the juvenile justice system run amok, award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein shows that there is no right way to lock up a child. The very act of isolation denies delinquent children the thing that is most essential to their growth and rehabilitation: positive relationships with caring adults. Bernstein introduces us to youth across the nation who have suffered violence and psychological torture at the hands of the...
14) Bad boys
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After killing the brother of a Chicago drug dealer, a young thug faces violent consequences both in and out of jail.
15) If
Series
Criterion collection volume 391
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (112 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
In late 1960s England, Mick Travis and his school chums trump authority at every turn at their boarding school. He finally emerges as violent savior against the draconian games of one-upmanship played by both students and the powers that be.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1993
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Caroline just wants to settle down in one place, find a decent guy, and provide a better home for her handful of a son, Toby. When she moves to Seattle and meets Dwight, she thinks she's got it made. Toby, however, feels differently after spending time with Dwight while away from Caroline. Dwight seems to want to mold Toby into a better person, but to do so he emotionally, verbally, and physically abuses the kid. The marriage proceeds, and soon Caroline,...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Description
Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned Hungarian terrorist and Roger Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects in a truck highjacking, and ends with the possible identification...
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gangs of rebellious teenagers have been using Nick Gordon's Merry-Go-Round Cafe as a staging ground for late night mischief. In the wake of a suicide, an armed robbery and a hit-and-run accident, the crooked restaurant owner decides that it's the perfect time to pull a payroll heist using one of the kids as a gunman.
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