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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--
For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Back in the town where he grew up, Hayley can attend school and maybe have a normal life, put...
3) The wall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.
5) War stories
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town wants Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Daisy has only ten weeks to prove her usefulness or else be sent back to the pound. Yet if she goes back, who will protect Colonel Victor from his PTSD attacks? Or save the littler human, Micah, from those infernal ear muzzles he calls earphones? What if no one ever adopts her again? Determined to become the elite protector the colonel needs, Daisy vows to ace the service dog test. She'll accept the ridiculous leash and learn to sit, heel, shake,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Benji and Red couldn't be more different. They aren't friends. They don't even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys to discover that they have more in common than meets the eye. Both of them have encountered a strange presence in the forest, watching them, tracking them. Could the Madman of Piney Woods be real?
Author
Series
Wolf Hollow volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her attacks. While others have always seen Toby's strangeness, Annabelle...
10) Great falls
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shane has always worshipped his big brother, Jeremy. But Jeremy hasn't been the same since he returned home from three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The happy-go-lucky brother that Shane once knew has been replaced by a surly drunk who carries his loaded 9mm with him wherever he goes and is living in their parents' basement because he can't face going home to his wife and two little kids. When Jeremy shows up after one of Shane's football games and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sammy meets a mysterious man who dies of a heart attack after telling her to get rid of the large amount of money he is carrying, leading her to investigate who the man was and how he came to be carrying so much cash.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed. But when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When it comes to American history or defending the underdog or getting to the bottom of things, no one outsmarts or outfights Lyndie B. Hawkins. But as far as her family goes, her knowledge is full of holes: What exactly happened to Daddy in Vietnam? Why did he lose his job? And why did they have to move in with her grandparents? Grandma Lady's number one rule is Keep Quiet About Family Business. But when her beloved daddy goes missing, Lyndie faces...
14) Two roads
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
15) Dancing carl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words.
16) Hollow chest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When his brother Theo returns home from World War II cold and distant, Charlie soon discovers that Theo's heart has been consumed by a war wolf, which lives off of grief, and must get Theo's heart back before it's too late"--WorldCat.
17) Taken
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rio Cruz and a crew of young disabled veterans are teamed up to sail around the world for charity--but when they are kidnapped by an psychotic African warlord and his band of child soldiers the trip of a lifetime turns into a nightmare journey into the African jungle.
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's Christmas time, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar's daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancé, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family's reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot's family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time since the War ended. And Harry, it turns out, isn't dead....
19) Wind dancer
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having lost her beloved pony in a traumatic accident, thirteen-year-old Ali is reluctant to help her parents care for a neglected, malnourished Appaloosa but working with Wind Dancer is a good distraction from problems surrounding her brother, who recently returned from Afghanistan with a missing leg and PTSD.
20) Pax
Author
Series
Pax volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back.
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be - with Pax. He strikes out on his...
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