Sentences with phrase «old girl character»

In this activity, children are be greeted by Julia a 4 - year - old girl character who has Autism.

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At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.
Jimmy's older sister, Donna, likewise served as Odyssey's stock girl character.
And, in a clearly counter-cultural move, the character, Zari, is a 6 - year - old girl.
«The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego serves kids ages 5 - to 18 - years old with academic success, character development and healthy lifestyle programs at 17 community - based sites county - wide,» notes an event spokesperson.
The main character, Hazel Grace Lancaster, was a seventeen - year - old girl who was dying of cancer.
Whether your 18 - month - old girl has a toddler potty or adapter seat, let her pick out the seat she wants (there are many choices out there, some of which might include her favorite characters) and decorate it to her liking with stickers or drawings.
Some of our choices when they were about four to six years old were the magical «Faraway Tree» series by Enid Blyton; the AA Milne books about Winnie - the - Pooh and other characters; the «Sophie» series by Dick King - Smith about a small but determined girl who wants to be a farmer; The American «Ramona» series by Beverly Cleary, featuring another small but determined girl.
The actual cut of it is very Midwestern, 15 - year - old girl, or, I guess 17 - year - old girl, which is the character I'm portraying,» the actress shared when asked about her new locks.
a fictional character that inspired two 12 - year - old Wisconsin girls to stab and.
I could see an 18 boy dating a 16 year old - and that might be stretching it; depending on his character; 14 year old girl dating a 16 year old boy?
Dressed in Hogwart's school uniforms, the girls giggle as they recall watching the first movie when they, like the main characters, were 11 years old.
The acting was decent from the father figure and the main character girl, but the old English vocabulary made many of the lines almost cringey and somewhat comical.
It seems like I have to make up for 150 character for It's a crapy «documentary» about a crappy «band», that is only getting positive reviews for 12 year old girls that discovered metacritic.
Gomez's younger «Wizards of Waverly Place» fans may readily believe the charade could continue for so long, but Meester and Cassidy's older «Gossip Girl» fans may not so willingly accept their characters» simplistic ways.
Eleven - year - old actress Joey King, who recently joined The Dark Knight Rises and is probably best known for appearing in Ramona and Beezus, will play the character of «China Girl» in the Oz prequel, a character who appeared in the original L. Frank Baum novel but not the Victor Fleming movie.
Ruby Sparks wants to wag its finger at the Manic Pixie Dream Girl ideal while still having lots of fun with the Ruby character and pouring out a lot of sympathy towards poor old troubled Calvin.
Marina de Van The main character in Marina de Van's Dark Touch is Niamh (Missy Keating), an 11 - year - old girl who discovers she has supernatural powers when said powers go a little haywire and end up killing her abusive parents.
Kaitlyn Dias voices the main human character — an eleven - year - old girl named Riley — but the main cast is composed of actors who voice her different emotional states.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).
His character is soon brought in to take on and help in the case of a brilliant, yet troubled sixteen - year - old girl to determine is she victim of a horrific trauma or is possibly a sinister sociopath.
His upcoming film brings us inside the mind of an 11 - year - old girl, with her emotions playing the main characters.
A Girl like Grace (Unrated) Ryan Destiny portrays the title character in this coming - of - age drama as a grieving 17 year - old who is taken under the wing of her late BFF's (Paige Hurd) street-wise big sister (Meagan Good) after the friend commits suicide.
A»90s - obsessed high school senior and self - confessed nerd who falls into a get - rich - quick scheme by accident while also pining for the older girl to whom he hopes to lose his virginity, the central character in Rick Famuyiwa «s «Dope» sounds like a stock role for a high school comedy.
In an era where teenage girls are either relegated to dumb - but - cute socialites or objects of some other teenage boy's (and sometimes older man's) desires, the character of Mattie Ross not only goes against the conventional grain by being anything but those things, but also is infused with riveting determination and conviction by Steinfeld's captivating portrayal.
It's an adventure built inside the mind of an eleven - year - old girl with her emotions as main characters.
Owing equal debt to Italian neo-realism and more contemporary Iranian cinema, Haifaa Al - Mansour «s feature debut follows the title character, a rebellious 12 - year - old girl who enters a Koran - recitation competition at school in order to win enough money to ride a bike, while her mother (Reem Abdullah) fights to hold on to her husband, whose wealthy mother is encouraging him to get a second wife.
Owing equal debt to Italian neo-realism and more contemporary Iranian cinema, Haifaa Al - Mansour «s feature debut follows the title character, a rebellious 12 - year - old girl who enters a Koran - recitation competition at school in order to win enough money to ride a bike.
Riley, an 11 - year - old girl who recently moved with her family to San Francisco, is not the main character but the setting for the film.
But when he befriends a young girl at at park, he has to face his old demons... It was always going to be a tough sell to elicit empathy for such a complex lead character, but Kevin Bacon manages to convey a complex range of emotions, from guilt, to desire and to fear of re-offending, in one of the best performances of his career.
Caine says he's lucky the Italian filmmaker wrote a leading part for an 82 - year - old man («I obviously wasn't going to get the girl or anything») and also gives some credit to recent hits centered on characters of his age, such as «The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» for keeping him busy.
Kim from the outset is presented as a headstrong girl but she succumbs physically to Jonny very quickly which degraded her character a little for me but she is a nineteen year old working as a chalet girl without her parents around so... fun and frolics must ensue... However what is more refreshing to watch is the journey of Kim, overcoming obstacles and her past trauma in order to shine on the slopes.
Mixing noir, fantasy, character study and crime and horror genres and tying them to an endearing eleven year old girl is genius.
THE BAD: some horribly trite jokes liberally lifted from The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy and other older and oft - used sources, film - flubs galore (the girl who falls into bed under the covers, several darts hitting a car when only one flew out the window, the monster's position changing while on the table, etc.), the Inspector Kemp (Mars, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and Frau Blucher (Leachman, The Last Picture Show) characters, and Madeleine Kahn's (High Anxiety, History of the World Part I) singing.
The L.A. Riot Spectacular looks like it was filmed on a dusty old video camera looted in the actual Rodney King riots (for authenticity), yet it features, in addition to Snoop Dogg: Charles S. Dutton as Mayor Tom Bradley; Emilio Estevez and Christopher McDonald as two of the police officers who beat King; He's My Girl star T.K. Carter as Rodney King; the aforementioned Cox as Gates; Jerry Maguire tot Jonathan Lipniki as hate - mongering youngster Tom Saltine Jr.; Silence Of The Lambs» Ted Levine as Tom Saltine Sr.; Charles Durning — who in a more blessed time scored back - to - back Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations for To Be Or Not To Be and The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas — as King's Jewish lawyer; George Hamilton as the «King Of Beverly Hills»; veteran character actor William Forsythe as the man who videotaped the beating; and porn star Ron Jeremy as a Ron Jeremy - like porn star.
The story of a 16 - year - old girl who gets pregnant could easily be the jumping point for broad social satire, but Cody respects her characters too much to mistreat them so.
Another character, Vic, is central to the book: he appears as an awkward adolescent fixated on unattainable older girls, as a young man coping with the legacy of his father's alcoholism and abandonment, and as a middle - aged man unable to come to terms with his past.
Mara was more than up to the task, as she created a bold, no - nonsense character that wasn't shy about using her «girl next door» looks to her advantage with older men.
Kiki Strike is targeted at grades 5 to 8, but our own reading and scanning of reader reviews at various sites indicate that it's likely to appeal to girls at the top end of the age scale, and beyond - Perhaps it is in recognition of this that the author has her characters age two years in this first book - they start off 12 years old but are 14 by the end.
Although I was a young girl in pigtails during WWII my older sister was a teenager and had some of the issues the characters in the story had.
I set out thinking I wouldn't enjoy this book because of the romance between a young girl and older man, but in the end, the characters and book won me over.
Fifteen years old when the book opens, Olympia has reached the moment when, as a character tells her, «a girl becomes a woman.
It's perhaps not the best compliment but this series has always impressed me for having an adorable, mostly dependent young girl character living with an older man, who she obviously has romantic feelings for, and not feeling «loli - ish» in nature.
LK: You are the mother of a 10 - year - old girl with autism (the inspiration for the character Callie in Gemini).
She is the proud mother of a beautiful 9 - year - old girl with autism (the inspiration for the character Callie in Gemini) and a 7 - year - old boy, both of whom are the lights of her life.
He withstood the antics of the youngest child with steady character and greeted the older girls every day after school.
As you might have guessed by this point, female characters from the same game get to pick facial options ranging from «young girl» to «woman» — the female equivalent of old man is nowhere to be seen.
The two main characters, a 14 year old girl name Sydney and a freelance photographer named Stanley, are beautifully animated.
You don't feel as if your playing an old - school 2D fighter, but that you're watching Anime in motion with a vast array of character designs, including Taokaka the cat girl and Arakune the um... shadow monster.
With all that said, if she is really interested in those two figures because she loves the characters (what nine year old girl doesn't right now?)
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