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43) On the horizon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the real life of Lieutenant Annie Fox, Chief Nurse of Hickam Hospital, The Woman with a Purple Heart is an inspiring WWII novel of heroic leadership, courage, and friendship that also exposes a shocking and shameful side of history. Annie Fox will stop at nothing to serve her country. But what happens when her country fails her? In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an air force base in Honolulu. The...
47) Pearl Harbor
Author
Publisher
Abdo Pub. Company
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an overview of the history of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, including the 1941 Japanese attack during World War II and the establishment of the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever, finds himself transported to the deck of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos of the attack.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 11
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Stosh travels back in time to 1941 in hopes of preventing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II, he meets Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Includes notes about Williams' life and career.
Language
English
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Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
55) In this moment
Author
Series
Timeless volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Hollingsworth has been born with a gift which allows her to live three separate lives in 1861 Washington D.C., 1941 Pearl Harbor, and 2001 DC. She faces a difficult journey to discover her true self, while drawn to three worthy gentlemen, before she must choose one life to keep and the rest to lose"--
"Maggie inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives in 1861, 1941, and 2001. Each night...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier–launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the Army reported that it was under attack from a submarine halfway between Seattle and Honolulu. After that one cryptic message, the humble lumber carrier Cynthia Olson and her crew vanished without a trace, sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. What happened to the ill–fated ship? What...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, exploring how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double agents and communist sympathizers--most notably Harry Dexter White--to lead Japan into war against the United States, proposing Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, examining the miscommunications, clues, missteps, and racist assumptions that may have been behind America's failure to safeguard against the tragedy.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to becomea spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
""A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Duke University out of fear of further Japanese attacks on the West Coast. Shortly after this unforgettable game, many of the players and coaches left their respective colleges, entered the military, and went on to serve around the world in famous battlegrounds, from Iwo Jima and Okinawa to Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge, where fate and destiny would bring...
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