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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle-schooler Jackson's baseball skills are not of much help when he and his friends go to soccer camp, and while there he learns that his mother's boyfriend has invited them to move into his house, and friend Diego's father is deployed to Afghanistan.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Elementary
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the role of African-Americans and Native Americans in the Revolutionary War, discussing how they chose sides, African-American presence in the army, fighting between Native Americans and settlers, and other related topics.
5) Allies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
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
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shot down over Viet Nam in 1968, Marine Lieutenant "Candy Man" Donovan must leave his seriously injured best friend behind in enemy territory while he tries to reach their rendezvous point.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Retells, in graphic novel format, the history of the author's namesake, an officer and spy for the American rebels during the Revolutionary War, revealing facts about Nathan Hale's earlier days at Yale and his unlucky experiences as an military officer.
13) A time for war
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his plane is shot down on June 6, 1944, D-Day, paratrooper Private Michael Donovan must find a way to survive and locate his platoon.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.
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