Del Norte Public Library

The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.

Seventeen-year-old Lady Bird McPherson struggles to balance the challenges of her last year of high school with her family relationships.

A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...

Nancy is an iconic girl detective with a passion for mystery and all things old. Small-town Nancy is about to experience a serious case of culture shock as she heads to Hollywood on an extended business trip with her father Carson Drew. Having promised her father that she has given up sleuthing in favor of becoming a "normal" teenager, Nancy tries her best to resist the lure of the age-old mystery of famous actress Dehlia Draycott's death. Living...

Animal house (double secret probation edition, 1978, 109 min.): Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. The campus' only other frat house is full of white, Anglo-Saxon, rich young men that no one can stand except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of their fraternity to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade. Dazed and confused (1993, 103 min.): America,...

Inspired by the 1987 true story, the movie follows novice runners from McFarland, an economically challenged town in California's farm-rich Central Valley, as they give their all to build a cross-country team under the direction of Coach Jim White, a newcomer to their predominantly Latino high school. With grit and determination, the unlikely band of runners eventually overcomes the odds to forge not only a championship cross-country team but an enduring...

"Against all odds, the students at Dominguez High School set out to put on the school's first theatrical production in more than 20 years. But what does Thornton Wilder's famous play about life in rural Grover's Corners have to do with Compton, California? [This film] follows the students on their discovery of the power of art and the human spirit."--Container.

Bold and brazen Jeanie has a lot to cope with. Her mom is divorced and desperate, her friends abuse drugs and alcohol, and on top of it all, she has to deal with immature Valley boys and "boring" North Hollywood High. Luckily she's got dancing, disco and her rebel gal pals to party with till she drops! But when her best friend Annie runs off to get away from her abusive, father, Jeanie has to grow up fast-- or lose her friend forever.

Santa Barbara, California. Raised by her strict Mexican grandma, Ri Ferǹndez has never been allowed to learn Spanish. She has always been pushed away from the neighborhood they call home and toward her best friend's world of mansions and country clubs in the hopes that it will bring Ri closer to achieving the "American Dream." Her mother disappeared when Ri was young, so when Ri finds an unanswered letter from her mom begging for a visit, Ri decides...

A walk to remember: A romance featuring a troublesome teenager in North Carolina who is changed for the better by the love of a girl. She is the angelic daughter of a local minister and the boy joins her in doing good deeds. But she has a secret which will break his heart. Pay it forward: When a young man starts "paying it forward" for a social studies project, unusual things happen in this bittersweet and uplifting tale.