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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Under the cover of night, deep in the desert of Afghanistan, a US Army handler led a Special Forces patrol with his military working dog. Without warning an insurgent popped up, his weapon raised. At the handler's command, the dog charged their attacker. There was the flash of steel, the blur of fur, and the sound of a single shot; the handler watched his dog take a bullet. During the weeks it would take the dog to heal, the handler never left its...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller featured on 60 Minutes, this is the first book to take readers inside the world of elite Navy SEAL dogs.
As Seen on "60 Minutes"!
As a Navy SEAL during a combat deployment in Iraq, Mike Ritland saw a military working dog in action and instantly knew he'd found his true calling. Ritland started his own company training and supplying dogs for the SEAL teams, U.S. Government,
11) Witchlanders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the prediction of Ryder's mother, once a great prophet and powerful witch, comes true and their village is destroyed by a deadly assassin, Ryder embarks on a quest that takes him into the mountains in search of the destroyer.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
129 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Una larga travesía hasta el agua, best-seller del New York Times, comienza como dos historias, que se van alternando, sobre dos niños de once años en Sudán, una niña en 2008 y un niño en 1985. La niña, Nya, va a buscar agua a un estanque que está a dos horas de caminata desde su hogar; cada día, hace dos viajes hasta el estanque. El niño, Salva, se convierte en uno de los 'niños perdidos' de Sudán, refugiados que recorren a pie el continente...
14) Assassin
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
212 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
15) Free-fire zone
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
16) Storm
Author
Series
The SYLO chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Having escaped from Pemberwick Island, Kent, Tori, Olivia, and Tucker continue to try to get word out about SYLO, the organization that had quarantined them, while trying to avoid being caught in the middle of an inexplicable new civil war.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"...explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers, doctors, and nurses."--
18) Bloodline
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old John Shaw returns from World War One and is haunted by nightmares of not only the battles but the horrifying discovery that his regimental commander is descended from Count Dracula.
19) Rat life
Author
Publisher
Sleuth Dial
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
199 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteen-year-old Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now that the strange war is over, sixteen-year-old Hallie and her sister struggle to maintain their family farm, waiting to see who will return from the distant battlefield, soon hiring a veteran to help them but, as ugly truths about their family emerge, Hallie is taking dangerous risks and keeping desperate secrets while monsters and armies converge on the small farm.
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