The Iron Giant. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1968 book, The Iron Man
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The Iron Man
Ted Hughes, 1968
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Brad Bird, 1999

During the Cold War, shortly after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in October 1957, an object from space crashes in the ocean just off the coast of Maine and then enters the forest near the town of Rockwell. Hogarth evades Mansley and leads the Giant to a junkyard owned by beatnik artist Dean McCoppin, who reluctantly agrees to keep him.


The Last Picture Show. Poster of the 1971 movie and cover of the 1966 book
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The Last Picture Show
Larry McMurtry, 1966
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Peter Bogdanovich, 1971

In 1951 Sonny Crawford and Duane Jackson are high-school seniors and friends in Anarene, Texas, a small declining northern Texas town. She is lonely because her husband is a closeted homosexual. At the Christmas dance Jacy is invited by Lester Marlow to a naked indoor pool party at the home of Bobby Sheen, a wealthy young man who seems to be a better prospect than Duane.


Young Frankenstein. Poster of the 1974 movie and cover of the 1818 book, Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818
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Mel Brooks, 1974

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein is a lecturing physician at an American medical school and engaged to Elizabeth, a socialite. He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather Victor Frankenstein, the infamous mad scientist, and insists that his surname is pronounced Fronkensteen.


Young Frankenstein. Poster of the 1974 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Young Frankenstein: A Novel
Gilbert Pearlman, 1974
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Mel Brooks, 1974

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein is a lecturing physician at an American medical school and engaged to Elizabeth, a socialite. He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather Victor Frankenstein, the infamous mad scientist, and insists that his surname is pronounced Fronkensteen.


The Croods. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Croods
Tracey West, 2013
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Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders, 2013

A cave family called the Croods survives a natural disaster, due to the overprotective nature of their stubborn patriarch Grug. One night, while her family is asleep, Eep sneaks out when she sees what she discovers to be a torch of fire, and she encounters an inventive modern human boy named Guy and his pet sloth Belt.


Love Takes Wing. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 1988 book
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Love Takes Wing
Janette Oke, 1988
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Lou Diamond Phillips, 2009

Mourning her husband’s recent death, Dr. Belinda Simpson arrives in the tiny town of Sikeston to fill the post of town physician. Once there she discovers that many of the town’s residents, including children at an orphanage run by Miss Hattie Clarence, have fallen ill or died from an unknown ailment. She soon wonders if she’s in over her head, despite reassurances from her best friend Annie and Lee, the town blacksmith.


Beach Girls. Poster of the 2005 TV series and cover of the 2004 book
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Beach Girls
Luanne Rice, 2004
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Paul Shapiro, Sandy Smolan, Jeff Woolnough, 2005

During the summer of 1985, three adolescent girls make a vow of enduring friendship at Hubbard’s Point, a coastal neighborhood. One of the women’s widower returns to the beach town with his teenage daughter years later after she has passed away in an effort to reconnect with her.


Sky High. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Sky High: The Junior Novelization
James Thomas, 2005
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Mike Mitchell, 2005

Will Stronghold begins ninth grade at Sky High, a high school that exclusively teaches teenagers with superpowers. On the first day, he and the other ninth graders are harassed by a group of bullies: Speed, a senior with super speed; Lash, a senior that can stretch his body; and Penny, another senior who can duplicate herself.


Hanging Up. Poster of the 2000 movie and cover of the 1995 book
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Hanging Up
Delia Ephron, 1995
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Diane Keaton, 2000

Georgia Mozell, Eve Marks and Maddy Mozell are adult sisters. Despite being as busy with her own life as the others, Eve is the only one of the three who deals with the long term hospitalization of their cantankerous seventy-nine-year-old father, Lou Mozell, when he enters the early stages of dementia, and the associated outcomes of that hospitalization.


The Bronx Bull. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 1986 book, Bronx bull, Raging bull II
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Bronx bull, Raging bull II
Chris Anderson, Sharon McGehee, Jake LaMotta, 1986
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Martin Guigui, 2016

The movie portrays the turbulent real-life journey of the legendary boxing champion, Jake LaMotta, detailing his ascent as a world-class boxer and his battles with life beyond the ring. It provides an unwaveringly candid glimpse into the mindset of a true champion.