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2) Ground Zero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds...
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Language
English
Description
There is war in Afghanistan and seventeen year old, Sarah dreams of living in a paradise far from the oppressive Taliban. When the U.S. Special Forces arrive to fight them, she meets Staff Sergeant Ron Hawkins who saves her from a public execution. While surviving together in the harsh Hindu Kush Mountains, Sarah believes in her heart that Ron is the long-awaited prince who will make her dream come true. But first, they must escape the relentless...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Hurricane Irma covers the enthralling story of one of the most powerful storms in recorded history and its devastating impact on the Floridian peninsula. Features include essential facts, a glossary, selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
8) Naveed
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Series
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt story of a teenage boy living in the conflict zone of Afghanistan. "The explosion jolts him awake. He sits up, gasping for air, heart thumping. Was the blast real? Perhaps it had only happened in his head, a bad dream. Demons of the dark, his father had called them. 'Push them away. They'll only poison your thoughts. Seek the light and they can't hurt you.'"Naveed is sick of war-of the foreign powers and the Taliban, the warlords and the...
9) Zafir
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Series
Language
English
Description
A gripping story of one child's experience of the civil war in Syria. Zafir has a comfortable life in Homs, Syria, until his father, a doctor, is arrested for helping a protester who was campaigning for revolution. While his mother heads to Damascus to try to find out where his father is being held, Zafir stays with his grandmother-until her house is bombed. With his father in prison, his mother absent, his grandmother ill and not a friend left in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since its publication in 2000, hundreds of thousands of children all over the world have read and loved The Breadwinner. By reading the story of eleven-year-old Parvana and her struggles living under the terror of the Taliban, young readers came to know the plight of children in Afghanistan. But what has happened to Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah Ellis went to Kabul to find out. She interviewed children...
11) Dawn and Dusk
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Language
English
Description
For as long as thirteen-year-old Azad can remember, the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he lives in the predominantly Kurdish town of Sardasht, has been at war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and his country has been a harsh society full of spies, secrets, and "disappearances." Still, most of the time Azad manages to live a normal life, hanging out at the bakery next door, going to school with his friend Hiwa, playing sports, and taking care of his parrot....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long journey to located their missing loved ones after the war ends.
13) Freefall
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Language
English
Description
What would your life be like if military service was compulsory, not voluntary? Aggie is eighteen and getting ready to do her service for the Israeli Army. She could get a cushy assignment-maybe pushing paper somewhere-or she could just take her chances. Only, Aggie isn't like that. Despite her small size and the fact that she needs to gain weight to even make the grade, and despite the total disbelief of her entire family (except her grandmother,...
14) The six-day hero
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Motti discovers that there are many types of heroes as his tiny young nation of Israel fights for survival in the Six-Day War of 1967.
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Language
English
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Description
When Miriam arrives in a small kibbutz in the aftermath of the Holocaust and World War II, the other children are wary, especially class queen Michal, whose boyfriend befriends Miriam. Written when the author was eleven, based on her Holocaust-survivor family members' recollections.
16) White needle
Author
Series
Shadow Squadron volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ryan Cross and the Shadow Squadron have been assigned to recover a chemical weapon that has been stolen by an extremist wing of the Syrian rebels before it can be launched against an unknown target.
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