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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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The leader, and only survivor, of a team of U.S. Navy SEALs sent to northern Afghanistan to capture a well-known al Qaeda leader chronicles the events of the battle that killed his teammates and offers insight into the training of this elite group of warriors.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
Presents personal narratives from the generation of Americans who were born in the 1920s, came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era.
In this book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and...
Author
Publisher
The Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Love and hope often arrive in the strangest places and in the strangest ways. During his tour of duty in Iraq, LtCol Jay Kopelman of the U.S. Marines endured the emotional stress common for those involved in bloody battles for freedom. Skirting the rules forbidding pets, Kopelman and his comrades adopted an abandoned puppy left behind after the battle for Fallujah. The dog (named Lava) befriended the Marines and journalists and was eventually smuggled...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Military Appreciation Month
NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction
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Military Appreciation Month
NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction
Veterans Day Nonfiction
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A member of Navy SEAL Team 3 describes his life as a father and husband, and as the serviceman with the most confirmed sniper kills in the history of the United States military while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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