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1) Young Joan
Author
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joan, a girl growing up in the French country side during the hundred year's war, begins to hear voices telling her she is destined to reunite her torn coutry in oppostions to the english invaders.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
HL 870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
6) Joan of Arc
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
16) Joan of Arc
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While sitting on the riverbank in the ancient French city of Orléans, seventeen-year-old Eloise hears a voice, which relates the adventures and struggles of the medieval heroine Joan of Arc as she fights to free France by driving out the English.
18) The Caretakers: War Grave Gardeneners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When World War I ended, hundreds of British veterans stayed in France to work for the newly chartered Imperial War Graves Commission. Through the 1920's and 1930's, these veteran-gardeners married local women, raised bilinqual children, and dedicated themselves to caring for the graves of their fallen comrades. When World War II swept through Europe in 1940, more than 200 War Graves gardeners were stranded in Nazi-occupied France. Their bosses explicitly...
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