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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In...
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Lexile measure
1260L
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English
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The gripping, unforgettable story of Stingo, a 22-year-old writer; Sophie, a survivor of the Nazi camps; and Nathan, her mercurial lover. The three friends share magical, heart-warming times until doom overtakes them as Sophie's and Nathan's darkest secrets are revealed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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"On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Baumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under...
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A fictional account of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe chronicles the events of the World War II campaign and the personalities who took part, from the ordinary soldiers on the land and in the air, to such leaders as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, and Omar Bradley, as their efforts changed the course of the war.
5) Shiloh
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English
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This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history, from Shelby Foote, beloved historian of the Civil War. Shiloh conveys not only the bloody choreography of Union and Confederate troops through the woods near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, but the inner movements of the combatants’ hearts and minds. Through the eyes of officers and illiterate foot soldiers, heroes and...
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(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Now a full-fledged Ranger, Will must rescue his friend Alyss from a rogue knight and uncover vital information needed to ward off a Scotti invasion.
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English
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Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe’s western front. France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire,...
Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe’s western front. France and Great Britain are on one side of the barbed wire,...
8) Legend
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Series
Legend novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 710L
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English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day--a famous criminal, and prodigy June--the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
9) Private life
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English
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As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret Mayfield is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed.
10) The snow goose
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1130L
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English
Description
Against the backdrop of World War II, friendship develops between a lonely crippled painter and a village girl, when together they minister to an injured snow goose.
11) Warlight
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English
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In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 71
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
"The names of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler have been emblazoned in the memories of generations of readers who have made Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind one of the most beloved sagas in American literature. Here is the sweeping take of Scarlett, raised to be a southern lady of leisure, and her world, which changes irrevocably during the Civil War. Scarlett's struggle is that of the south--trying to scrape together a life of decency and meaning...
13) Prodigy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
780L
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English
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
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Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 28
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English
Description
In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.
In March 1847, 8,000 soldiers landed on the beaches of Vera Cruz, led by the army's commanding...
In March 1847, 8,000 soldiers landed on the beaches of Vera Cruz, led by the army's commanding...
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An incredible publishing story—written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a New York Times bestseller for sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next, and a USA Today bestseller—Matterhorn has been hailed as a "brilliant account of war" (New York Times Book Review).
Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and
...17) Peace
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English
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During the winter of 1944, three soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up a mountain in Italy, near Mount Cassino, lead by seventy-year-old Angelo, an Italian of indeterminate loyalty, and are confronted by the terror, confusion, and hardship of their mission.
18) One of ours
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
980L
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English
Description
The son of a prosperous Nebraska farmer yearns to leave his prairie home
19) Ordinary heroes
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Stewart Dubinsky volume 2
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English
Description
Stewart Dubinsky knew his father, David, had served in World War II, but had been told very little about his experiences. When he finds, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee and learns of David's court-martial, Stewart is driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man he never knew. Using military archives, old letters, and David's own notes, he discovers that David, a JAG lawyer, had pursued a maverick...
20) The infinite sea
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity ... Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others' ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race. Cassie and her friends haven't seen...
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