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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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Includes maps indicating the Normandy Beachhead expansion, July 1-24, 1944; the pursuit to the Siegfried Line, Aug. 26-Sept. 14, 1944; the Ardennes Campaign, Dec. 16-25, 1944, Dec. 26, 1944-Jan. 16 1945, and Jan. 17-Feb. 7, 1945; the Battle of the Rhineland, Feb.8-Mar. 28, 1945; and the drive to the Elbe, Apr. 4-May 7, 1945.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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A latest entry in the best-selling series dramatically portrays the events of World War II in 1944, when escalating Pacific battles between the forces of General Douglas MacArthur and the Japanese army lead to the development of humanity's deadliest weapon and newly appointed President Truman's impossible choice.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin -- code name: "The Needle" -- who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 61
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom. The multimillion-copy bestsellers that capture all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War -- and that constitute Wouk's crowning achievement -- are available for the first time in trade paperback.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
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On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they struggled to stay alive, battered by a savage sea and fighting off sharks, hypothermia, and dementia. By the time help arrived-nearly four days and nights later-all but 317 men had died. How did the navy fail to realize the Indianapolis was...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their...
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Henry family volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 71
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
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A sequel to "The Winds of War," following the lives of members of the American Henry family as they deal with the triumphs and tragedies of life during the World War II years.
12) Hiroshima
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
On August 6th, 1945, a bomb with the explosive force of 12,500 tons of dynamite was shot into the heart of the Japanese metropolis of Hiroshima. Not only did the initial blast virtually topple the city, maiming and killing tens of thousands, but the radiation unleashed by the atomic bomb inflicted countless more with radiation poisoning that caused chronic sickness and even more gruesome deaths. Less than a year after the attack, journalist, John...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
730L
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English
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Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller. THE NEW YORK TIMES Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for FictionEnter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The stories of individual men and women during the second World War, written as a sequel to The Greatest Generation as a result of the many letters the author received. "They give us new, intensely personal perspectives of a momentous time in our history. They are the voices of a generation that has given so much and wants to share even more. Some of the letters were written from the front during the war, or from families to their loved ones in harm's...
15) Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Stephen E. Ambrose's iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army. They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1010L
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English
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"On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed with music, food, and girls--but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier--a move...
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Tattooist of Auschwitz volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport from Slovakia to Auschwitz in 1942, Lale immediately stands out to his fellow prisoners. In the camp, he is looked up to, looked out for, and put to work in the privileged position of Tätowierer- the tattooist - to mark his fellow prisoners, forever. One of them is a young...
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