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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by...
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City, where he joins forces with Princess Lexa and Ripred the rat to defend the Underlanders and the Nibblers from the army led by the adolescent rat king, the Bane.
4) No!
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this almost wordless picture book, a small boy sets out to deliver a letter and experiences acts of war on his way.
Author
Series
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Now a full-fledged Ranger, Will must rescue his friend Alyss from a rogue knight and uncover vital information needed to ward off a Scotti invasion.
Author
Series
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Will is forced to overcome his fear of Wargals, the foot soldiers of rebel warlord Morgarath, as Araluen's army prepares to battle Morgarath's forces.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simple, rhythmic text explores the wanton destructiveness of War, which has grown old but not wise, as it demolishes nice people and beautiful things with no consideration for the consequences.
12) Swordbird
Author
Series
Swordbird volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Warring factions of blue jays and cardinals call on Swordbird, the heroic bird of peace, to rescue them from the evil machinations of Turnatt, the tyrant hawk lord who plans to enslave them.
14) Killing season
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ford, an American veteran of the Bosnian war, retreats to a cabin in the woods to escape painful memories. Kovac, a Serbian veteran of the same war, has an old score to settle and hunts Ford down in the wilderness.
15) Monsters of men
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
17) The blade itself
Author
Series
First law volume 1
Publisher
Orbit, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Infamous Logen Ninefingers has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian. He is caught in murderous conspiracies and old scores, along with Captain Jezal dan Luthar, Inquisitor Glokta and the wizard Bayaz, who all must try to survive the coming war.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Having been imprisoned when the Confederation of Consolidated Republics, a foreign power, conquered Los Angeles in 2056, fourteen-year-old Cody escapes and endures hardship to become the underground hero the White Fox.
Author
Publisher
Washington Mews Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the haunting description of an abandoned battlefield to the pain of losing a loved one in the war to soldiers' struggles with what we now recognize as PTSD, the stories offer an unflinching glimpse into the physical, emotional, and even spiritual implications of World War I. In this collection, we follow the trials of naïve war widow Annette Stoll, reflect on the power of small acts of kindness toward a dying soldier, and join Johann Bartok,...