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1) Allies
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. The only way to stop them? The biggest, most top-secret operation ever, with the Allied nations coming together to storm German-occupied France.Welcome to D-Day.Dee, a young U.S. soldier, is on a boat racing toward the French coast. And Dee -- along with his brothers-in-arms -- is terrified. He feels the weight of World War II on his shoulders.But Dee is not...
2) Invasion!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry were friends in Virginia, but now that they are both involved in the Normandy invasion, the differences in their positions is uncomfortable, for Josiah is a white infantryman and Marcus is a black transport driver, the only role the segregated army will allow him.
3) Holes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
"Stanley Yelnats’s family has a history of bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys’ juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there is no...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Opening the door into the innermost places of the heart, The Secret Garden is a timeless classic that has left generations of readers with warm, lifelong memories of its magical charms. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen… So begins the famous opening of one of the world’s best-loved children’s stories. First published in 1911, this is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of ten-year-old Mary who, after the death of her parents, comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how some of Paris's famous artists and writers, such as Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, and Guillaume Apollinaire, spend their day before preparing to attend a party at Gertrude Stein's apartment.
Author
Series
Secret language of girls trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Marylin and Kate have been friends since nursery school, but when Marylin becomes a middle school cheerleader and Kate begins to develop other interests, their relationship is put to the test.
8) Landed
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After leaving his village in southeastern China, twelve-year-old Sun is held at Angel Island, San Francisco, before being released to join his father, a merchant living in the area. Includes historical notes.
9) Chicken boy
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Since the death of his mother, Tobin's family life and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place.
10) Twenty and ten
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Join Madeline, Miss Clavel, Pepito, eleven school friends, and her ever-so-smart dog, Genevieve, in a thrilling Paris adventure that kids won't want to miss, where everyone learns the true meaning of family! Includes five new Madeline songs.
12) Pagan in exile
Author
Series
Pagan chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After fighting the infidels in Jerusalem in 1188, Lord Roland and his squire Pagan return to Roland's castle in France where they encounter violent family feuds and religious heretics.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.
14) Rescue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
18) Boots
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Mae's Aunt Willa and Aunt Jane, both pilots, are kidnapped by evil Metallic Falcon, Josie, Mae, and Akiko, the Infinity Trinity, pursue them from Chicago to Sweetwater, Texas, to Paris, France.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.
20) Petal's problems
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During the month of June, Petal, one of the eight Huit octuplets, gets her power, which she uses to great advantage when Crazy Aunt Serena tries to kidnap Rebecca and throw her off the Eiffel Tower while the rest of the family attends a wedding.
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