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Language
English
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"J.H. "Billy" Williams always had an affinity for animals. So, when he responded to job offer with the East India Company to work with logging elephants his family wasn't surprised, though worried that he had already come back from World War I in one piece, would he be so lucky with India? Not only did he find his calling with the elephants in India, Billy and his elephants became war heroes. At the onset of World War II, Williams formed Elephant...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stray dog named Rags befriends a U.S. soldier in Paris, France, during WWI. Rags traveled with the troops carrying messages from the front line to the back. His loyalty kept him by his owner's side until Sergeant Donovan died at the base hospital in Chicago"--
83) Semper fido
Author
Series
Dog tags volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Gus Dempsey is a newly trained dog handler in the United States Marine Corps, and when he is deployed to Afghanistan he is paired with Loki, a bomb-sniffing black Labrador with a mischievous streak.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Whether she was dragging men to safety from the wreckage of a torpedoed ship or scavenging for food to help feed the starving inmates in hellish Japanese POW camps, Judy was adored by the British, American, Australian, and other Allied servicemen who fought to survive alongside her in World War II"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Her true identity is a secret. With his ex-wife next on a killer?s hit list, military police lieutenant Ethan Webb and his K-9 partner, Titus, must guard the woman posing as her. But courageous private investigator Kendra Bell refuses to be just bait -- she wants to help bring down the killer. Can she play her part without falling for her pretend ex-husband? --
86) A valiant deceit
Author
Series
Olive Bright mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Young pigeoneer Olive Bright has been conscripted, with her racing birds, to aid the fight against the Nazis. It's not the daring role she'd envisioned for herself, but her quiet little English village is not nearly as sheltered as she imagined... Returning to Pipley following her FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) training, Olive is eager to step up her involvement in the war effort. Her pigeons are being conscripted to aid the Belgian resistance,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Weaving wartime intrigue, rural village life, and little-known historical facts about the role of carrier pigeons in WWII, Stephanie Graves continues the adventures of British pigeoneer Olive Bright. But as bitter cold weather forces her racing birds indoors in November 1941, Olive is assigned to a new role in the war effort--escorting none other than Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming on his visit to the Brickendonbury Manor spy training center"--...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash-landings to parachute bailouts--ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend. In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey that would turn them into lifelong friends. One was an orphaned...
93) Dog Jack
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Civil War family film is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape from a plantation, join the Union army, and eventually face their former master on the battlefield. The story is based on the true-life adventures of the mascot of the Pennsylvania 102nd.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will be tested, their fates will be shaped, and their lives...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The powerful true story of a SEAL Team Six member and military dog handler, and the dog that saved his life. Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden's compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. This is Cairo's story, and that of his handler, Will Chesney, a member of SEAL Team Six whose life would be irrevocably tied to Cairo's. Starting in 2008, when Will...
97) No Better Friend
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc. by arrangement with Little Brown Books for Young Reader
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of a stray dog who became a hero of the First World War. For his keen instincts and fierce loyalty, Stubby is still recognized today as the most decorated canine in American history and the first promoted to the rank of Sergeant in the U.S. Army.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Stubby, a Boston terrier, is scrounging for food in the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1917 when he is adopted as a mascot by the 102nd Infantry Regiment and finds himself on the way to France and the trenches of World War I where he soon learns to save his soldiers by alerting them to impending gas attacks, and eventually is awarded a medal by General Pershing.
