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Series
I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody...
2) Grenade
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
It's 1945, and the world is in the grip of war. Hideki lives with his family on the island of Okinawa, near Japan. When WWII crashes onto his shores, Hideki is drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps to fight for the Japanese army. He is handed a grenade and a set of instructions: Don't come back until you've killed an American soldier. Ray, a young American Marine, has just landed on Okinawa. This is Ray's first-ever battle, and he doesn't...
4) Behemoth
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Hoping to save their family and the citizens of Ferryport Landing from the evil plans of Mirror, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm seek counsel from the other magic mirrors, who advise them to join forces with the Scarlet Hand.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been imprisoned when the Confederation of Consolidated Republics, a foreign power, conquered Los Angeles in 2056, fourteen-year-old Cody escapes and endures hardship to become the underground hero the White Fox.
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him--until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother ... but her attempts at granting wishes never go as planned. Will she ever be truly ready to lead...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
9) Allies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
10) Neversink
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Barry Wolverton's masterful middle-grade debut, Neversink, is an epic tale of some very un-epic birds, a fast-paced and funny story of survival, friendship, and fish, in the vein of Watership Down and Kathi Appelt's The Underneath. Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Forced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. Based on the author's own life experience and inspired by a true story, Nour's Secret Library is about the power of books to heal, transport and create safe spaces during difficult times. Illustrations by Romanian artist Vali Mintzi superimpose the colorful world the children construct over black-and-white...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Kenan loves drawing and playing soccer with his friends...Sometimes his parents drive him crazy, but he feels loved and protected until the war ruins everything. Soon, Kenan's family is trapped in their home with little food or water, surrounded by enemies. Ten months later, with help from friends and strangers, they finally make it out of the country alive. But that's only the beginning of their journey"--
13) The bicycle spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in a position of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Liverpool, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids. Everyone is on edge, faced with strict food rationing, curfews, and blackouts. It's not an easy time to be a teenager. Joan's one solace is going to the movies with her best friend, the unflappable Doreen, but when the bombings intensify, even that becomes too dangerous. There's also the matter of a strange man who Joan sees lurking...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"telling in simple language suited to boys and girls, the inspiring stories of the lives of George Washington, John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Robert E. Lee, George Peabody, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Jas. A. Garfield, Robert Fulton, Cyrus W. Field, Thos. A. Edison "--
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