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Teen life is full of mysteries and problems, so a socially challenged, nerdy computer whiz and his best friend set out to create the 'perfect woman.' Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the duo's heavenly creation guides the pair through the pleasures and pitfalls of teenage life.
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Hops home: The class learns about habitats when Ms. Frizzle transforms the bus into a frog to help look for Wanda's missing pet frog!; Meets the Rot Squad: It's "Accidental science project" day and the class has brought in marvelously rotten entries fromk the back of their refrigerators.
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Jimmy and Cindy have to team up for a school science project. For his history report, Nick tells about the Phantom of Retroland. Then Jimmy needs some chemicals in order to finish an experiment. When Jimmy is elected the new hall monitor, he vows to bring hall monitoring into the 21st century. It's another invention mishap for Jimmy. Jimmy creates a "get out of school" patch that makes kids sick when they wear it. Jimmy develops a "Dream injector...
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The Goonies: Two kids find a treasure map just as they're about to lose their house. They and their friends go on a search for the treasure, but not without trouble from a few ne'er-do-wells.
Beetlejuice: After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands...
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Get ready, set, dough: It's Ms. Frizzle's birthday. A field trip to the bakery seems perfect, until the bus's shrinker-scope goes on the fritz and the class gets baked in a cake!
Plays ball: Ms. Frizzle combines Dorothy Ann's physics and Ralphie's baseball into a "Frictionless Baseball Game."
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Michael Harlan has procrastinated on his science project until the last minute, and his teacher issues him an ultimatum: turn in a science project or flunk. So, Mike scavenges a military base₂s junk pile for a suitable gizmo to pass off as his project. He finds one and unwittingly unleashes the awesome power and energy of the unknown. Twisted dimensions, time warps, a fantastic realm where the past, present, and future collide in a whirling vortex...
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Michael Harlan has procrastinated on his science project until the last minute, and his teacher issues him an ultimatum: turn in a science project or flunk. So, Mike scavenges a military base's junk pile for a suitable gizmo to pass off as his project. He finds one and unwittingly unleashes the awesome power and energy of the unknown. Twisted dimensions, time warps, a fantastic realm where the past, present, and future collide in a whirling vortex...
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Ferris Bueller's day off: A high school student is determined to get a day off with his friends in Chicago by outwitting his principal.
Sixteen candles: Samantha Baker is ready to make the most of her sweet sixteenth birthday, but only if someone, anyone from her family would just remember it. For her birthday, she has to endure creepy freshmen, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the beauty who stands in the way of the boy of her dreams.
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The Breakfast Club: "An iconic portrait of 1980s American high school life. When Saturday detention started, they were simply the Jock, the Princess, the Brain, the Criminal and the Basket Case, but by that afternoon they had become closer than any of them could have imagined."--Amazon.com
The 'Burbs: "Ray Peterson would like nothing better than to spend a quiet week's vacation in his suburban home, drinking beer and watching TV. But, spurred on...
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