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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle...
4) Soldier boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
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English
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A fictional retelling of the legend of John Clem, who ran away from his Ohio home to become a drummer boy during the Civil War, and became famous when he was captured in 1863 and was exchanged after a short stay in Andersonville prison.
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English
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This biographical novel about the life of Kit Carson-frontiersman, fur trapper, Army scout and later military officer, and always a trusted friend to the Indian nations-focuses primarily on the seventeen years from 1831 to 1848 when Carson was among the foremost of the men engaged in war.
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Boudica novels volume 1
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English
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Dreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica.
Boudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word “boudeg”). She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome — and triumph.
It is 33 AD and eleven-year-old Breaca (later named Boudica),...
Boudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word “boudeg”). She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome — and triumph.
It is 33 AD and eleven-year-old Breaca (later named Boudica),...
10) Regeneration
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Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 1
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, a combat officer and poet, writes a letter publicly disavowing the war. He is found to be "mentally unsound" and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where there is a psychiatrist renowned for curing such sad cases.
12) The exile
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Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Banished from his native Ireland for sedition, Thomas Francis Meagher escapes to 1852 New York, where he campaigns for home rule in Ireland before fighting in the Civil War and becoming secretary to the governor of Montana Territory.
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Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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In 400 B.C., Xenophon, a young, philosophical Athenian warrior of noble birth, finds himself in the cold Armenian mountains heading an army of mercenaries and fighting for survival after a staggering defeat in Babylon ends their stuggle against the Persian king for control of his lands.
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