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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard surrived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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All the Light We Cannot See Read-Alikes
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
"This anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler. Neither country can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board the Coordinated Endeavour under strange circumstances: he doesn't remember the launch, the ship's OS is voiced by his mother, strangers have been aboard, and Kodiak, the only other...
7) Uncaged
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Series
Singular menace volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"When an animal rights action at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them"--
8) Endangered
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary-- and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
9) Rescued
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When John was ten years old his father brought back a baby orangutan from Indonesia, and Raja quickly becomes John's "brother" and responsibility--so years later, after his parents divorce, and his father has sold Raja to a roadside zoo, John sets out to rescue him and bring him to a sanctuary in Indonesia.
Author
Series
Point last seen volume 1
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While helping the Portland County Sheriff's Search and Rescue to seek a missing autistic man, teens Alexis, Nick, and Ruby find, instead, a body and join forces to find the girl's murderer, forming an unlikely friendship, as well.
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Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.
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Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Discusses the efforts of ten individuals who did what they could to save Jews from the Nazis, including Anna Borkowska, Varian Fry, Irene Gut Opdyke, Mustafa Hardaga, Jorgen Kieler, Oskar Schindler, Andrew Sheptitsky, Sempo Sugihara, Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard, and Raoul Wallenberg.
15) The children of Willesden Lane: beyond the kindertransport: a memoir of music, love, and survival
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
World-renowned concert pianist Mona Golabek shares her mother's journey through World War II and of the extraordinary gift that became her enduring legacy to her daughter, the gift of music.
A renowned concert pianist presents the moving true account of her mother's escape from pre-WWII Vienna to 243 Willesden Lane, an orphanage in London, where, among many Jewish refugees, she formed everlasting friendships, found love, and won a scholarship to...
16) Schindler's list
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, best-selling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles...
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Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Willow Zimmerman reconnects with estranged family friend and real estate tycoon E. Nigma, but after he helps her earn enough for medical treatments for her mom she is attacked by the monstrous Killer Croc and upon waking after the fight she gains powers and insight she will need to make the right choices.
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