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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The mass market edition of the New York Times Bestseller. This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa routinely captured American...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother,...
5) Crescent
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.
6) Sharpshooter
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. Enlisting in the United States Army, Ivan is trained to...
Author
Series
Sofia (Henning Mankell) volume 1
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Recounts the experiences of a spunky young girl, just eleven when the Civil War breaks out, as she watches her brothers go to war, helps care for her mentally ill father, and falls in love with a boy determined to be a soldier. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After Jennie Lovell's fiancé, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.
10) Walking wounded
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends at home and in Vietnam, but now Rudi has been killed in action, and the remaining three are the only ones who know the truth about their friend's death--and the knowledge threatens to tear them apart.
11) Monkey wars
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When rhesus monkeys are brutally massacred on the streets of Kolkata by a troop of power hungry langur monkeys, a young langur soldier's life is changed forever.
Author
Publisher
Red Deer Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the real life experiences of a Sudanese boy, follows Jacob Akech Deng's journey as he flees his home under the threat of war, and, guided by the memory of his mother, tries to survive in a refugee camp.
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"In this third installment to the Montmaray Journals, Sophie and her family come together to support the war effort during World War I, meanwhile fighting to protect their beloved Montmaray"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has evern known.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When the Civil War breaks out, two cousins, Lizzie and Rosanna, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict until the war reunites them in the town of Gettysburg.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The worst maritime disaster in American history wasnt the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River and it could have been prevented.In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincolns assassination. Thousands of Union soldiers, released from Confederate prisoner-of-war camps, were to be transported home on the steamboat Sultana. With a profit to be made, the captain rushed repairs to the boat so...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town....
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