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Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of Europe-including part of France. With the enemy just a few miles from England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to help free France. To make his plan work, he needed people who could secretly...
2) Turquoise
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2014, c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to turquoise, the gemstone that's name is French for Turkish, discussing how turquoise is formed and where it is found.
4) Rescue
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
5) Allies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Colonial America, the Johnson family are captured by Indians & forced on a long trek. In August 1754, on the brink of the French and Indian War, James Johnson, his wife Susanna, and their children were captured in an Indian raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire. Retelling of story as it might have happened.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the events of the French and Indian War, from the war's start with Washington's surrender to the French in 1754 to its conclusion with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2007, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Horace has received an almost impossible homework assignment at King Arthur's School for Trainee Knights--he has to kill a dragon, which is even more difficult because his father is one.
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller/EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2018, c2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Alfie Onion is setting out on a great adventure. His brother Magnifico is off to make the family's fortune...and Alfie's carrying his luggage. But it turns out Magnifico hates adventures and Alfie has to save th day--with a little help from his loyal dog, a talking horse, two mice and some meddling magpies.
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller/EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2018, c2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Princess Peony has a bad feeling that her father might be a tyrant. She doesn't want to believe it, but he has a nasty habit of throwing people in dungeons. There's a royal party coming up, and the king's in an even worse mood than usual. He flat out refuses to invite the wicked hag, which can mean only one thing: trouble!
15) France
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
16) Joan of Arc
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A look at the young peasant woman who led the French army to victory over the English and saw the crowning of the French king, and later was made a saint.
18) The lost kingdom
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the French and Indian War, Billy Bartram and his naturalist father travel into the American wilderness in an airship--pursued by a party of French soldiers and haunted by a terrifying bear-wolf--on a quest to find the lost kingdom of the Welsh prince Madoc.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
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