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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 780L
Language
English
Description
A young English girl and her father take their sturdy fishing boat and join the scores of other civilian vessels crossing the English Channel in a daring attempt to rescue Allied and British troops trapped by Nazi soldiers at Dunkirk.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
It is the end of May 1940, the British government has put out a call for fishing boats to help rescue the British soldiers trapped at Dunkerque and Aiden is the son of a fisherman with access to his father's dory--his parents forbid him to go, but Aiden has already lost one brother to the war, and his other brother is somewhere over there with the British Expeditionary Force; so despite his fear of the ocean, he and his best friend Sally set out to...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In Dover, England in 1940, fourteen-year-old Alec Curtis wants nothing more than to go to sea, to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over the earlier drowning of his cousin and to help the war effort, but when he sneaks aboard a small boat going across the English Channel to Dunkirk, his experience changes him forever.
Publisher
BBC America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at distances of 100 miles away.