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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of communism. Despite personal and political trials, Kennedy's approval ratings soar. At the same time, JFK acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khruschchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Allen Dulles, director of the CIA. Then, in the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down, resulting in national...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton’s tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"In this illustrated book written by bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and James Patterson, a collection of artists each contribute a piece of art demonstrating why the word 'please' makes all the difference in the world"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally...
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2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
8) The day the world went nuclear: dropping the atom bomb and the end of World War II in the Pacific
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Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Portrays the events of World War II in 1944, when escalating Pacific battles between the forces of General MacArthur and the Japanese army lead to the development of humanity's deadliest weapon and President Truman's impossible choice.