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Author
Series
Crescent City volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds. The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri's power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels'...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set during the Civil War, it tells of the brutal disillusionment of a young recruit who had dreamed of the thrill and glory of war, only to find himself fleeing the horror of a battlefield. Shame over his cowardice drives him to seek to redeem himself by being wounded-earning what he calls the "red badge of courage."
5) Skyward
Author
Series
Skyward volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race. She dreams of becoming a pilot, but her fate is intertwined with that of her father-- a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team. When the Krell double their fleet, this may be...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passions, and circumstances, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France -- a heart-breakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds. Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely...
11) Red storm rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, the Soviets seize the oil in the Persian Gulf. To keep NATO from retaliating, they develop a master plan called Red Storm.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
By turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a beautiful English nurse fall in love when he is wounded on the Italian front. The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For fans of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, this powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family--by the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Again--tells the tale of an American woman, a British RAF pilot, and a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II. When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Presents three cartoons: "Daisy-Head Mayzie," in which Mayzie learns a lesson about fame when a daisy inexplicably sprouts from her head; "Horton Hatches the Egg!", in which an elephant suffers through freezing cold and nasty taunts in order to keep his word; and "The Butter Battle Book," in which the Yooks and Zooks come to the brink of war over how bread should be buttered.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In 1947, during the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to...
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Language
English
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Description
In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Uncharted worlds, distant galaxies, and unknown threats lurking in the vastness of the cosmos ... travel to the farthest regions of space in this collection of original short stories. Written by many of today's finest authors, readers will find canonical tales of the Honorverse, the Lost Fleet, Dune, Vatta's War, Ender Wiggin, the Legion of the Damned, the Imperium, and more. Also included are past masterpieces by authors whose works defined the genre....
20) Gearbreakers
Author
Series
Gearbreakers volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead. The shadow of Godolia's tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday contants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords. Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a brash young rebel who specializes in taking down Windups from the inside. When one of her missions goes awry...
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