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3) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Three young middle-school-age children, Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across cultural and religious divides.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
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Description
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house, and their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Commander Donovan has a chance to prove to himself and his elite SEAL team that he has what it takes to lead when their helicopter is shot down and some of his men captured by terrorists in the mountains of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
"In 1952 Afghanistan, Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters"--Provided by OCLC.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Enaiatollah Akbari, having been brought to Pakistan by his mother after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2000 and abandoned by her shortly after, endures five years of agony as he travels across borders fending for himself and in search of political asylum.
Author
Series
John Wells volume 6
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In 2009, the CIA's Kabul Station fell for a source who promised to lead it to Bin Laden, but instead he blew himself up, taking the station's most senior officers with him. Now, more than two years later, the station is still floundering, agents are dying, and at Langley the CIA's chiefs wonder if the unthinkable has happened, if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station. When they ask John Wells to investigate, he reluctantly agrees to return...
Author
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Michael Parson, a navigator, and Sergeant Gold, an Army interpreter, are shot down over Afghanistan while transporting an important Taliban detainee, they are forced to survive amid the dangers of the Taliban, villagers of uncertain allegiance, and an uncooperative prisoner.
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Language
English
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Description
Swashbuckling British adventurers find triumph and tragedy in nineteenth-century Afghanistan in this novella J. M. Barrie called "the most audacious thing in fiction." While on tour in India, a British journalist encounters Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, two foolhardy drifters with a plan. Claiming they've exhausted all the schemes and odd jobs they could find in India, the two are in search of an even greater adventure. They tell the journalist...
20) Tanner's Virgin
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The CIA, the FBI, the KGB, Interpol -- not one of the world's premier intelligence organizations knows quite what to make of Evan Michael Tanner. Is he a spy, a mercenary, a footloose adventurer, or simply a screwball sucker for hopeless causes? (Actually he's a little bit of all of the above. Plus he never sleeps. Ever.) One thing's for sure: Tanner's a true romantic, which is why he can't refuse a distraught mother who begs him to rescue her lost,...
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