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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"Felix, from Austria-Hungary, longs for the bravery to resist Jewish deportations before his own family is taken. Kara, from Britain, dreams of someday earning her Red Cross pin and working as a nurse--or even a doctor. Juliette, of France, hopes her family can remain knitted together, despite her father's imprisonment, as the war's longest battle stretches on and on. Elsa, from Germany, hopes her homing pigeon might one day bring her a friend from...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
It's 1914 and the world is on the brink of war. But at almost fifteen, Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter, Rilla, dreams only of her first dance and getting her first kiss from the dashing Kenneth Ford. Soon, however, even far-off Ingleside is engulfed by Europe's raging conflict, as Rilla's brothers Jem and Walter both enlist, and Rilla finds herself caring for an orphaned newborn. As the conflict spreads, the Blythes wait anxiously for word of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
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"When the British Royal Navy grew desperate to protect their ship from German U-Boat attacks, they created Dazzle ships in order to confuse the enemy of their location and destination."--
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English
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In 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania was making its way from New York to Liverpool when it was sunk by a German U-boat, shocking the world with the massive death toll. Infuriated by the tragedy, Arthur Guy Empey, an American citizen, traveled to England to enlist in the Royal Fusiliers, as the United States had not yet entered the war. Over the Top tells the story of Empey's experiences in a voice straight from the western front, causing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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World War I was a brutal war that left more than 9 million dead. Millions more were wounded and lost their homes. The two sides--the Allied Powers and Central Powers--cut secret deals to get countries to join their side. They unleashed secret weapons, employed spies, and relied on the element of surprise itself to wage terrible battles. "Secrets of World War I" reveals little-known stories of the people, weapons, and battles that have affected the...
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English
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For the Green family, it's going to be a summer of hard work, blackmail... and flying pigs! The Green family is living quite happily on Deep Valley Farm until war breaks out. Father goes off to fight who knows where, the Greens' spoiled cousins come from the city to stay and someone threatens to take the farm from them. Just when it seems things can't get any worse, the piglets escape and the children get completely Out of Control. Only one person...
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar, and Jane is at high school when the sand fairy, Psammead, suddenly reappears, and his magic has a more serious purpose than when the siblings were children.
17) Crossing stones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Description
Four young people in two families tell of their experience during World War I when the boys enlist and are sent to fight, Emma finishes school, and Muriel joins the suffrage movement.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Description
In 1940 England, stuck in a train tunnel while German fighter jets fly overhead, Barney hears an unlikely story of a highly decorated World War I soldier who once had a chance to kill young Adolf Hitler.
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