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1) Allies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Present day Scotland. A tale is told to a couple of American tourists by a kindly gentleman in a pub. Angus is a lonely boy who pines for his father, who is serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Angus, along with his sister and mother, live on an estate that has been billeted by soldiers in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. The troop's commander has an eye for mom, is suspicious about a mysterious handyman, Lewis, who is also a war...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Description
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I. The bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a war-torn Middle Eastern country, Noor and Farah find an old book in an abandoned library with a picture of a dragon matching Noor's birthmark, and when the girls are found by a patrol of soldiers, Noor goes through an unexpected transformation.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When three soldiers leave the battle to hide in a field, a dragon rescues them. But Dragon offers them safety only if they serve him for seven years. To be set free they must answer a riddle. Will the soldiers gain their freedom or will they be servants of the Dragon forever? This is a grim retelling of 'The Devil and His Grandmother' an 1800's English tale adapted by Brothers Grimm"--
8) Purple Heart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Philip Nolan, having, in a moment of passion, expressed the wish that he might never again hear of the United States, is required to realize his wish. The story of his awakening to a sense of his deprivation is a moving plea for love of country." Pratt alcove.
10) Secret soldiers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In 1917, Thomas, a thirteen-year-old coal miner seeking his missing brother, James, joins the Claykickers, who tunnel beneath the battlefields of the Western Front as they learn to be men.
14) Invasion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry were friends in Virginia, but now that they are both involved in the Normandy invasion, the differences in their positions is uncomfortable, for Josiah is a white infantryman and Marcus is a black transport driver, the only role the segregated army will allow him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In World War II-era England, Michael learns about his black British Army soldier grandfather, a World War I officer who risked his life to save wounded men but who did not receive special commendations because of his race.
19) Crossing stones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four young people in two families tell of their experience during World War I when the boys enlist and are sent to fight, Emma finishes school, and Muriel joins the suffrage movement.
20) The Mist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist Dan West has nerves of steel. He regularly risks his life to disarm IEDs. He puts up with his squad mates' mean-spirited pranks without complaint. And when West finds an Afghan boy standing on a bomb's pressure plate, he still manages to keep calm; because if he doesn't, West will be forced to face the only thing he truly fears-the pink mist. The bloody result of a bomb taking someone's life.
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