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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from World War I and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively, this series is the best way to be introduced to some of the most well-known battles (and little-known secrets) of the infamous war.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A New York Times bestseller
"Both moving and memorable, combining the emotional resolve of a memoir with the rhythm of a novel." —New York Times Book Review
In 1945, in a now-famous piece of World War II archival footage, four-year-old Michael Bornstein was filmed by Soviet soldiers as he was carried out of Auschwitz in his grandmother's arms. Survivors Club tells the unforgettable story of how a father's
4) World War I
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Explains the causes, outcomes, and repercussions of the war that was supposed to end all wars.
7) World War II
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Explains the causes, outcomes, and repercussions of the largest conflict in human history.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Author James Buckley Jr. explains how these twenty-nine brave and intelligent Navajo men developed their amazing code, recounts some of their riskiest missions, and discusses how the country treated them before, during, and after the war.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the White Rose, a group of students in Nazi Germany who were active undercover agents of the resistance movement against Hitler and his regime"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
At the outset of World War II, deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. The young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage against the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits helped spark a full-blown Danish...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. This is the story of Raskova's three regiments, women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics. It is the story of...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A young adult adaptation of the remarkable memoir of the pararescue jumper, Special Forces Operator and decorated war hero describes how the elite Alaskan 212th Pararescue Unit saves at-risk citizens, wounded soldiers and sometimes each other from life-threatening hazards in the Alaskan wilderness and beyond.
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