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Publisher
Trinity Creative
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a raid in Normandy goes wrong, a British commando team finds themselves holed up in a barn, cut off from their comrades, and encircled by Wehrmacht forces. Survival seems unlikely until an unexpected discovery offers them a chance to escape.
2) Lost boys
Author
Publisher
Square Fish/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1982 Iran, twelve-year-old Reza is more interested in music than war, but enlists in obedience to his devout mother and soon finds himself in a prison camp in Iraq.
3) Journalists
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
"Young readers learn about amazing war journalists, reporters, and photographers who risked their lives to bring important stories and imagery to life for people back home"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
"Every war requires more than just the efforts of traditional soldiers. Some heroes' stories are not appreciated during their time. In Beyond the Battlefield: Homefront Heroes, you'll go Beyond the Battlefield to uncover the crucial work done by people at home to help during wartime. These efforts include growing Victory Gardens, smuggling soldiers out of hospitals to safety, saving lives of Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto, and more!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Exploring the historical background of the First World War, this visual guide profiles more than 90 of the key ideas and events during and surrounding the conflict, from the growing tensions between Europe's major powers to the endless slaughter in the trenches to the creation of the League of Nations.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The essential guide to the war in which millions died for our freedom."--
"This comprehensive book charts the course of World War II around the world: in Europe, the Pacific, and Africa. The book includes time lines, maps, and infographics as well as hundreds of compelling photos and illustrations. Firsthand accounts bring history to life and show how individuals experienced this apalling conflict, be they military or civilian, adult or child."--back...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
Seventh grader Oliver, a Civil War buff and weekend reenactor, is partnered with two misfits--Ella, who is on the verge of failing all her classes, and Kevin, who is Oliver's lunch companion--to create a documentary about the wartime experience of a Civil War contemporary, and while they conduct research in local historical societies, collaborate on a script, and edit the film, they discover secrets about their Pennsylvania soldier and learn how to...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East. In February 1944, in one of the most astonishing battles of World War II, a ragtag collection of British clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews, managed to defeat a much...
14) Sound the gong
Author
Series
The kingdom of three volume s 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Zephyr, now a god in a warrior's body, faces challenges as she strives to support her lordess Xin Ren in a tumultuous political landscape, and is determined to overcome fate and make her enemies pay, even when confronting a revelation about Crow's true allegiance.
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating story of America's national day of thanks and of the tenacious and inspiring Sarah Josepha Hale, a nineteenth-century woman who made establishing this holiday her life's mission--one brought to fruition by the wise support of Abraham Lincoln"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea Clubhouse
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the events that led Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" and discusses the meaning of the song and its importance as the national anthem of the United States. In 1814, a young American lawyer named Francis Scott Key watched as British troops attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore. In the end, the American flag still waved above the fort. Filled with emotion, Key wrote the first lines of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Follow Samira as she journeys through the Nazi-occupied French countryside, on a daring rescue mission to find her captured mother. Accompanied only by a loyal dog named Cyrano, Samira must rely on her courage and wits to avoid and outsmart the German forces. But it's D-Day, and with the Allied forces landing in Europe, fierce battles are raging all around. Can Samira reach her mother and save her in time?
