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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 71
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
"The names of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler have been emblazoned in the memories of generations of readers who have made Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind one of the most beloved sagas in American literature. Here is the sweeping take of Scarlett, raised to be a southern lady of leisure, and her world, which changes irrevocably during the Civil War. Scarlett's struggle is that of the south--trying to scrape together a life of decency and meaning...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Appears on list
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. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Young Henry Fleming had always dreamt of performing heroic deeds in battle. But as a raw recruit in the American Civil War, the reality if one of mental and physical torment. Throughout his first ordeal in action, Henry experiences both fear and self-doubt, and has no idea whether war will make him a coward - or a hero.
5) Shiloh
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English
Description
This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history, from Shelby Foote, beloved historian of the Civil War. Shiloh conveys not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops through the woods near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but the inner movements of the combatants’ hearts and minds. Through the eyes of officers and illiterate foot soldiers, heroes and...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Baumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1350L
Language
English
Description
It is the late 1750s, and the French and Indian War grips the wild forest frontier of western New York. The French army is attacking Fort William Henry, a British outpost commanded by Colonel Munro. Munroʹs daughters Alice and Cora set out from Fort Edward to visit their father, escorted through the dangerous forest by Major Duncan Heyward and guided by an Indian named Magua. Soon they are joined by David Gamut, a singing master and religious follower...
8) War horse
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has adapted his much-loved novel, War Horse, for a picture book audience. This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse and is a gateway to help children understand the history and deadly chaos of the First World War. As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, War Horse remains an important book for...
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English
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On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861, shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war. Smoke Jensen The Beginning follows the Jensen clan during these volatile years, from Civil War battles to border state raids to the kind of frontier justice achieved only by bullets and blood. William W. Johnstone chronicles...
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English
Description
"In a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night and then set fire to her home. When their lifelong neighbor Akhmed finds Havaa hiding in the forest with a strange blue suitcase, he makes a decision that will forever change their lives. He will seek refuge at the abandoned hospital where the sole remaining doctor, Sonja Rabina, treats the wounded. For...
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Civil War volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
The Civil War as seen by generals on both sides of the conflict. They are the Confederacy's Lee and Jackson, and the Union's Chamberlain and Hancock. The novel follows them from the start of the war to just before the Battle of Gettysburg. A prequel to The Killer Angels, a 1974 novel by the author's late father.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front. The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver...
13) The march
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient...
15) World War II
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides an eyewitness account of the turbulent and terrifying events of World War II, from the Blitz to the atomic bomb. Be an eyewitness to the turbulent and terrifying events of World War II -- from the Blitz to the atomic bomb. Discover how everyday items were reused for the war effort. See the way propaganda affected the minds of people. Find out why many Japanese soldiers would rather die than face capture. New Look! Relaunched with new jackets...
16) The postmistress
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Language
English
Description
In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women--and of two countries torn apart by war.
17) Where you belong
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Language
English
Description
Val Denning, a willowy war photographer, left her American family -- and cruelly unloving mother -- for a life abroad and a life of danger. But Val's dazzling world of work, risk, and love has suddenly come apart. An assignment in Kosovo left her lover dead and Val adrift in Paris ... Soon, in her grief, with horrific battle scenes etched in her mind, Val will realize that she was lied to by the man she loved--and that another man, a friend, has loved...
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Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
20) Legacies
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English
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A romance between a white woman and an Indian man during the Civil War. She is Diana Parmelee, daughter of a Union officer, he is Lije Stuart, a Harvard-educated lawyer from the Cherokee Nation, whose family owns a plantation and sides with the Confederacy. A sequel to The Proud and the Free.