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1) Forge
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Curzon, having matured from boy to man over the course of the winter with the army at Valley Forge, worries that someone will learn he is a runaway slave passing for free, and tries to figure out the meaning of his friendship with Isabel.
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Lone star hero's love story volume 3
Lone Star hero's love stories volume 03
Lone Star hero's love stories volume 3
Lone Star hero's love stories volume 03
Lone Star hero's love stories volume 3
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English
Description
After the War Between the States, a Confederate officer longs to heal the heart of Lizbeth Barclay--but first he'll have to right the wrongs that were done to her.
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Lord John Grey novels volume 1
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English
Description
"The year is 1757. On a clear morning in mid-June, Lord John Grey emerges from London's Beefsteak Club, his mind in turmoil. A nobleman and a high-ranking officer in His Majesty's army, Grey has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: The Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms who may have been a traitor. Obliged...
4) Open fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"In 1917 Russia, seventeen-year-old Katya joins the first all-female battalion to fight the Germans, but she soon finds that patriotism alone won't help her survive the realities of war"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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A gripping story of a young Confederate rifleman from Mississippi named Bushrod Carter, who serves in General John Bell Hood's army of Tennessee during the civil war battle that takes place in Franklin Tennessee, in November 1864. Written with reference attention to historical accuracy, the book vividly document the fear, suffering, and intense friendships that are all present on the eve of the battle.
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English
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In the summer of 1863, Adam Rosenzweig has left a Bavarian ghetto and sailed for America to join the Union Army. Fired by the revolutionary idealism of mid-nineteenth-century Europe, he hopes to aid a cause which he believes to be as simple as he knows it to be just. But thwarted by the discovery of a physical deformity which he had hoped to conceal, he must try other means to find his "truth."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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From the best-selling author of The Lost Regiment series comes this factually based narrative of the black military experience in the Civil War. “I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man.” Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master's cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north...
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Soldier of the Queen volume Book 1
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English
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1878: When his family loses their home, to Jack Roberts, who has grown up hearing stories of the Crimean war and the magnificent charge of the Heavy Brigade, the choice between working in a dangerous factory or enlisting in the army and putting on the famed red uniform is an easy one. But when fighting for Queen and Country takes him far from home and defending a small mission station from overwhelming numbers, it is anything but easy and bravery...
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English
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"In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position...
10) Reign of iron
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English
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Invaders have massacred and pillaged their way through neighbouring kingdoms and loom on the far side of the sea, ready to descend upon the fortress of Maidun - with them are an unstoppable legion of men twisted by dark magic. Somehow Queen Lowa's army must repel the invasion, although their best general is dead and their young druid powerless. She faces impossible odds, but when the alternative is death or slavery, a warrior queen will do whatever...
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English
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In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island's most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. Two neighbouring families, the Georgious and the Ozkans, are among many who moved to Famagusta to escape the years of unrest and ethnic violence elsewhere on the island. But beneath the city's...
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English
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"In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
13) The majors
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Series
Brotherhood of war volume 3
Language
English
Description
An elite delegation of American soldiers are secretly sent to Vietnam to offer the French military assistance.
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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.
15) 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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before the twenty-one-year-old Stephan Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this pwerful psychological study of a young soilder's struggle with the horror's, both within and without, that war unleashes strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and it's masterful description of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by men under fire. Esteemed...
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