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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In 1896, an archaeological dig unearths an ancient trunk containing manuscripts that confirm the existence of Araluen Rangers Will and Halt and tell of their first meeting and some of their previously unknown exploits.
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English
Description
As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Description
In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a nation, taking the conflict from kingdom and courtroom to the bold and bloody battlefields of war. It was never a war in which the outcome was obvious. Despite their spirit and stamina, the...
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Series
Admiral James Stavridis volume 02
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Military fiction that imagines a geopolitical conflict in the year 2054"--
It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that's held power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounitng violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning ot lose control of the...
8) Shadow scale
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Seraphina volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Seraphina, half-dragon and half-human, searches for others like her who can make the difference in the war between dragons and humans in the kingdom of Goredd"-- Provided by publisher.
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English
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The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of nuclear weapons of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort than the world has yet seen. It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free. A frequent theme of Wells's work, as in his 1901...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Halt, Will, and Horace set out for Hibernia, where a quasi-religious group, the Outsiders, is sowing confusion and sedition, and they find that secrets from Halt's past may hold the key to restoring order before the last kingdom is undermined.
12) Fallen angels
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
For Whom the Bell Tolls begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies "flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees." The sylvan setting, however, is at sharp odds with the reason Jordan is there:...
15) The moon is down
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, provincial Norwegian town is invaded by German soldiers. An act of brutality begins an uncontrollable, unalterable chain of events.
16) A distant melody
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Series
Wings of glory volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval, even marry a man she doesn't love. Lt. Walter Novak - fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women - takes his last furlough home in California before going overseas. Walt and Allie meet and begin a correspondence that will change their lives. The letters that fly between Walt's muddy bomber base and Allie's mansion bind them together in friendship....
17) The captains
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Brotherhood of war volume 2
Language
English
Description
"It was more than an incident. It was a deadly assault across the 38th parallel. It was the Korean War. In the fear and frenzy of battle, those who had served with heroism before were called again by America to man the trenches and sandbag bunkers. From Pusan to the Yalu, they drove forward with commands too new and tanks too old: brothers in war, bonded together in battle as they had never been in peace..."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger.
19) Monsters of men
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
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English
Description
"World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary voyage to England--aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the...
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