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Series
Vietnam volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends at home and in Vietnam, but now Rudi has been killed in action, and the remaining three are the only ones who know the truth about their friend's death--and the knowledge threatens to tear them apart.
4) Kent State
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
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Language
English
Description
"With his girlfriend, Robin, away in Canada, eighteen-year-old Lucas Baker's only plans for the summer are to mellow out with his friends, smoke weed, drop a tab or two, and head out in his microbus for a three-day happening called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. But life veers dramatically off track when he suddenly finds himself in danger of being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Special Forces volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Manion lands in the Studies and Observation Group, a volunteer task force that focuses on covert action and psychological warfare during the Vietnam War.
10) Free-fire zone
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
11) Listen, slowly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A California girl born and raised, Mai can't wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai's parents think this trip will be a great opportunity for their out-of-touch daughter to learn more about her culture. But to Mai, those aretheir roots, not her own. Vietnam is hot, smelly, and the last place she...
12) Anthem
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Full of photos, music, and figures of the time, this is the masterful story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Certain that he is doing the right thing by donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program in Vietnam, thirteen-year-old Mark begins to have second thoughts when the Army refuses to say when and if Wolfie will ever return.
14) Sharpshooter
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. Now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. But Vietnam is not the war he was expecting. Now, for the first time, Ivan is forced to question what he's really...
15) Dogs of war
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 490L
Language
English
Description
Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs. Based on true stories.
17) Emergency ops
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Anne Donovan's field hospital in NhaTrang, Vietnam, treats many wounded soldiers, but when one of her patients is somebody she recognizes her emotions threaten to overwhelm her.
18) Strays
Author
Series
Dog tags volume 02
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As American troops are being pulled out of Vietnam, young soldier Chuck goes AWOL when he learns that the Army intends to euthanize his companion, military working dog Ajax.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pitching a tent on the roof of her home during a summer when she gets fed up with her dysfunctional relatives, Joyce bonds with a boy who is grieving the loss of his brother before concocting a plan to build and sell tickets to a UFO display.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1971, twelve-year-old Lucy Rossi's dad returns from Vietnam after losing part of his arm, and her whole family must learn to adjust to a new dynamic, but Lucy's friend Milo unknowingly helps her navigate through this difficult time of fear and uncertainty to realize she is much tougher than she thought.
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