Chris Lynch
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
Author
Series
Special Forces volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Manion lands in the Studies and Observation Group, a volunteer task force that focuses on covert action and psychological warfare during the Vietnam War.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite the fact that his brother is missing in action in the Pacific theater, Theo McCallum, a gunner on a B-24 Liberator returns to his unit in Europe to continue the war because he feels that the other men in his unit feel like family to him--and he cannot believe that his brother is actually dead.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends at home and in Vietnam, but now Rudi has been killed in action, and the remaining three are the only ones who know the truth about their friend's death--and the knowledge threatens to tear them apart.
7) Sharpshooter
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. Now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. But Vietnam is not the war he was expecting. Now, for the first time, Ivan is forced to question what he's really...
8) Cyberia
Author
Series
Cyberia volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future where electronic surveillance has taken the place of love, a veterinarian is putting computer chips in animals to control them, and those creatures choose young Zane, who understands their speech, to release captives and bring them to a technology-free safety zone.
9) Minesweeper
Author
Series
Special Forces volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Fergus Frew thought he knew what to expect when he signed up with the Navy's demolitions team. But as the Korean War rages on, Fergus and his fellow divers -- a.k.a. "frogmen" -- are tasked with more than just scouting mudflats. Soon they're planting mines. And sabotaging tunnels, bridges... and even fishing nets. Scariest of all, it falls to Fergus to discover where the enemy has placed their mines, a job as painstaking as it...
10) Good devils
Author
Series
Special Forces volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gabriel Greene is too young to join the military, but after Pearl Harbor he and his sickly older brother, Dallas, each take the other's name. The Army has special uses for soldiers as ferocious and tenacious as Gabe-- the First Special Service Force. From the start it's intended to go where other soldiers won't-- and soon Gabe and his fellow commandos will get their wish: combat. -- adapted from jacket
The First Special Service Force is an elite...
Author
Series
Cyberia volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future where electronic surveillance has taken the place of love, young Zane uses technology to talk to animals and battles an evil veterinarian who is working on a new device to control animal movement and speech, employing Zane's dog as his first test case.
12) Inexcusable
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.
13) Walkin' the dog
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A dog walking venture helps thirteen-year-old Louis, who would rather kick back than stand out, learn how to be a friend.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to effect him.
15) Iceman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Eric, a ruthless hockey player prone to violence on the ice, tries to reconcile his own needs with those of his parents.
16) The liberators
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland.
17) Pieces
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eric deals with the loss of his older brother Duane by meeting three of the seven recipients of Duane's organs a year after his death, and pondering who they are to him, and he to them.
18) Freewill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death of his father and stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen suicides occurring in his town.
19) Irreversible
Author
Series
Inexcusable volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Keir Sarafian must finally confront his past when tragedy strikes during his first year of what has been an eye-opening first year of college.
20) Prime evil
Author
Series
Cyberia volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"Zane and his animal comrades have foiled Dr. Gristle's terrible plots twice--the doctor still can't talk to animals, and he can't get at the heart of what makes them wild. Zane, however, can talk to them. And what they're telling him is very disturbing. Zane keeps getting in Dr. Gristle's way, though--and now he's being sent as far out of the way as he can get, to a strange 'camp' in the middle of nowhere...In order to get home, Zane must figure...