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Whether it's being told you have to purchase two seats on an airplane or getting dirty looks when you're with a handsome man, being a big girl in a superficial world can come with more issues than any woman should have to deal with. Add to that some over-the-top family and marriage issues, and you have the perfect recipe for some Big Girls Drama.
When Vivian married Sheldon, she thought she would be spending life with her best friend, but now she...
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What happens off court?
Marsha Lawson has no idea what her team-mates do when they're not playing netball - that's her first mistake. Taking her eye off the ball is her second.
Using netball as an escape from her miserable home life, she's desperate to keep the past buried and to forge a brighter future.
But she's not the only one with secrets.
When two players want revenge, a Tsunami of emotions is released at a tournament, leaving destruction...
3) Coraline
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Coraline Jones finds a magical world that is similar to her own, but when her "other parents" try to get her to stay, Coraline must look for a way to return to the real world.
4) Hanna
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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After being raised by her father to become an assassin, a teenage girl is sent on a mission and must evade intelligence agents that have knowledge about her past.
6) Pretty Fire
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English
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In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph. This NAACP award-winning play is a one-woman tour de force. Chosen as a “Recommended Young Adult Audiobook” by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. Pretty Fire is the first play of a trilogy that continued with Neat and ended...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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After attacking two teenage girls, killing one and wounding the other, an ex-convict and his gang find shelter at the home of one of the girls' parents, and when the parents realize what has happened they seek revenge for their daughter's attack.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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For over fifty years, Judy Blume's classic has connected with readers through its relatable story, achingly funny details, and candid exploration of life's biggest questions. In Lionsgate's big-screen adaptation, eleven-year-old Margaret is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who is also struggling...
11) Orphan
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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When a family adopts Esther, a nine-year-old Russian orphan with a tragic background, mysterious and disturbing events start occurring around the family and Esther's new classmates in school.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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After her mother is locked away in a mental hospital Molly Hartley tries to start over at a new school, but when her nightmares continue she discovers that there are dangerous and disturbing secrets surrounding her and her family.
15) Hairspray
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When Tracy Turnblad has a chance to dance on a 1960's music show, her actions bring her fame, and some people around her try to stop her while others help her dreams come true.
16) The new daughter
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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After moving his children to South Carolina, a single father notices that his daughter's behavior is changing and strange events are happening around the house and property.
17) St. Trinian's
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Follows the antics of students and teachers as they try to save their English boarding school from closing.
18) Wild child
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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After an unruly American teenager is sent to a British boarding school, she continually tries to find ways to be expelled and begins a relationship with the headmistress' son.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Join Barbie as Corinne, a young country girl headed to Paris to pursue her big dream: to become a female musketeer. Never could she imagine she would meet three other girls who secretly share the same dream. Using their special talents, the girls work together as a team to foil a plot and save the prince.