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2) Blue fire
Author
Series
Healing wars volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While trying to lead the Takers out of Geveg, fifteen-year-old Nya is captured by bounty hunters and taken to Baseer, where she escapes and soon finds herself helping the Baseeri.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, and the losses incurred over the course of thirty years test the limits of their strength and courage.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected, and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century. In the aftermath, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver's courtesan school, an act of desperation that will cement her place in the lowest social status....
Author
Series
Dagger and the coin volume 3
Language
English
Description
The great war cannot be stopped.
The tyrant Geder Palliako had led his nation to war, but every victory has called forth another conflict. Now the greater war spreads out before him, and he is bent on bringing peace. No matter how many people he has to kill to do it.
Cithrin bel Sarcour, rogue banker of the Medean Bank, has returned to the fold. Her apprenticeship has placed her in the path of war, but the greater dangers are the...
The tyrant Geder Palliako had led his nation to war, but every victory has called forth another conflict. Now the greater war spreads out before him, and he is bent on bringing peace. No matter how many people he has to kill to do it.
Cithrin bel Sarcour, rogue banker of the Medean Bank, has returned to the fold. Her apprenticeship has placed her in the path of war, but the greater dangers are the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping international love story that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over the inhumanities of war and prejudice. Six-year-old Gretl and her sister jump from a train bound for Auschwitz, her mother and grandmother unable to squeeze between the bars covering the windows. The daughter of a German soldier, Gretl understands very little about how her grandmothers Jewishness brought her first to the ghetto, then to the train, and now, to...
Author
Series
Dagger and the coin volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Everything I look for in a fantasy." — George R. R. Martin
All paths lead to war. . .
Marcus' hero days are behind him. He knows too well that even the smallest war still means somebody's death. When his men are impressed into a doomed army, staying out of a battle he wants no part of requires some unorthodox steps.
Cithrin is an orphan, ward of a banking house. Her job is to smuggle a nation's wealth...
All paths lead to war. . .
Marcus' hero days are behind him. He knows too well that even the smallest war still means somebody's death. When his men are impressed into a doomed army, staying out of a battle he wants no part of requires some unorthodox steps.
Cithrin is an orphan, ward of a banking house. Her job is to smuggle a nation's wealth...
Author
Series
Ship Breaker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a dark future where America has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
Author
Series
Red Cross orphans volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As the Second World War rages on, nurse Kitty Pattison’s life takes a nomadic turn as her work with the Red Cross sees her traversing the country, moving from post to post. With her best friends Jo and Trixie also scattered across the UK, and her soldier sweetheart Michael off on the continent undertaking medical missions he can’t discuss, the war takes its toll and long days are followed by sleepless nights interrupted only by nightmares of...
10) The king's blood
Author
Series
Dagger and the coin volume 2
Language
English
Description
When an act of harrowing betrayal threatens to burn the cities, a courageous young woman becomes the world's only defender against a universal darkness in a confrontation that reverses the fortunes of powerful and oppressed people.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
1929. Four-year-old Etty and eight-year-old Dorothy are abandoned at Blakely Hall orphanage by their mother, never to see her again. With no other family to speak of, the sisters worship their beloved mam--and they are confused and hearthbroken to be deserted by her when they need her the most"--Back cover.
13) The surrendered
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after vying for the attentions of a beautiful but damaged missionary wife at a Korean orphanage, a Korean orphan and a former GI are reunited by a plot that forces them to come to terms with mysterious secrets from their past.
14) The Enigma game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A German soldier risks his life to drop off the sought-after Enigma Machine to British Intelligence, hiding it in a pub in a small town in northeast Scotland. Louisa Adair, a teen girl hired to look after the pub owner's elderly, German-born aunt, Jane Warner, finds it but doesn't report it. Flight-Lieutenant Jamie Beaufort-Stuart intercepts a signal but can't figure it out. Ellen McEwen, volunteer at the local airfield, acts as the go-between and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
ESTAMOS EN EL AÑO 414 de la dinastía Xin y el caos campa a sus anchas. El trono está ocupado por una emperatriz que no es más que una marioneta. El reino se ha dividido en tres territorios y tres señoras de la guerra esperan hacerse con todo.Pero Céfiro sabe que no tiene competencia.De pequeña se quedó huérfana y tuvo que tomar las riendas de su destino para convertirse en la mejor estratega del reino. Ahora sirve a Xin Ren, una señora...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"An utterly enchanting, immersive novel about an irrepressible young heroine who becomes an undercover agent during World War II - a sparkling debut, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, all whales belong to the King, but twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household and their guests - her sister, Flossie (known affectionately...
17) Our war
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A prescient and gripping novel of a second American civil war, and the children caught in the conflict, forced to fight. Our children are our soldiers. After his impeachment, the president of the United States refuses to leave office, and the country erupts into a fractured and violent war. Orphaned by the fighting and looking for a home, 10-year-old Hannah Miller joins a citizen militia in a besieged Indianapolis. In the Free Women militia, Hannah...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In the chaos of World War II, Polish teenagers Helena and Luzyna Grabowski have lost everything. Without parents or a home, they are shipped to a refugee camp in Persia, where the days ahead hold only darkness. When they hear that orphans are being selected for relocation to New Zealand, Helena is filled with hope--until the officials say they have a place only for her younger sister. On the morning she is to be transported, Luzyna fails to join...
19) Silent
Author
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
This novel tells the story a girl who must pretend to be a male soldier to save her younger brothers during World War I.
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