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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier captured by the Germans, witnesses firebombing and destruction in Dresden. Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to Read more... Billy Pilgrim, an American...
2) Ender's game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.
4) Ghost Recon
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Series
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English
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"The U.S. Army's Special Forces are known for their highly specialized training and courage behind enemy lines. But there's a group that's even more stealthy and deadly. Composed of the most feared operators on the face of the earth--they are the soldiers of Ghost Recon. Captain Scott Mitchell and his Ghost Recon team infiltrate China's eastern coast to seek and destroy the Spring Tiger Group. The small band of renegade Chinese military leaders is...
5) Allies
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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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...
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Courage classics volume 0
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English
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The glory, pride, horror, and cowardice that are associated with war are depicted in a classic account of a young soldier's Civil War experiences.
Story of a young Union soldier under fire for the first time during the Civil War.
8) Invasion!
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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.
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The 39 clues. Main series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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As the race to find the 39 Clues builds to its explosive finish, Amy and Dan must explore an ancient culture and steal a clue guarded by thousands of the world's best-trained soldiers. It's the most dangerous search yet ... and it may mean the end for Amy and Dan.
10) Ghost soldiers
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Series
Invisible detective volume 3
Publisher
Sleuth/Putnam
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While investigating a haunted house, the Cannoiers discover a group of scientists who are creating an army of indestructible mutant soldiers to fight the Germans in pre-World War II London.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The Ingalls family packs up their covered wagon and travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home in Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. On the prairie, they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie...
12) Drummer Hoff
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Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
c1967
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.
14) Grenade
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
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Series
Yudel Gordon novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Abby Bukula, the grown daughter of parents killed during an anti-apartheid protest, repays the man who saved her life by teaming up with an eccentric psychologist to investigate attacks on the massacre's soldiers.
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English
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During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
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