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Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
It's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it's not just a political tangle that's kept him tethered to the country. There's also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
By April 1915, as Chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warefare is impartially cutting down England's youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man's land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice. A nephew of the respected General Owen Cullingford, Prentice was despised for his prying attempts to elicit facts that would turn publilc opinion against the war.
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Language
English
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Caddie Blair feels everything strongly-and so she works hard to keep her distance. It's the ethical thing for a journalist to do, especially in a war-torn region like the Middle East. And Caddie wants to believe that nothing is as important as covering 'the story.' There's room for passion in her life-but that's only physical. And Caddie keeps even those fleeting attachments under wraps, secretive, because she knows that when a journalist even appears...
5) Scoop
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Language
English
Description
"Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fictional African...
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Series
Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"As the election of 1860 draws near and political tensions between the North and South threaten to escalate into a full-scale war, Corrie Belle Hollister finds herself thrust into the political arena. Her reputation as California's Woman Reporter and her vain attempts to help Colonel John Fremont in the presidential election of 1856 have brought her to the attention of the leaders of California's new Republican Party. And the handsome young political...
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Series
Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As the War Between the States escalates into full-scale conflict threatening to tear the nation apart, Corrie Belle Hollister finds herself far from her home and thrust into the center of the battle. --- {Excerpt from back cover.}
Author
Series
Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 5 & 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Two complete novels of history and drama in one exciting novel.
Author
Series
Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 6
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Nicole came to Afghanistan to make a killer war documentary, but when the helicopter she bribed to take her closer to the enemy gets shot down she finds a lot more action than she had bargained for--and it is up to an Army Special Forces team to locate and rescue her and her cameraman.
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