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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Halt, Will, and Horace set out for Hibernia, where a quasi-religious group, the Outsiders, is sowing confusion and sedition, and they find that secrets from Halt's past may hold the key to restoring order before the last kingdom is undermined.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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Description
When "All Quiet on the Western Front" - a quasi-autobiographical war novel by German army veteran Erich Maria Remarque - was published in 1928, it was an immediate sensation. Few books before it had dared to describe in such detail the privations, challenges and horrors of war and the book became a publishing juggernaut, selling 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print.
It has since become a classic of the genre; a...
7) Shadow scale
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Series
Seraphina volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seraphina, half-dragon and half-human, searches for others like her who can make the difference in the war between dragons and humans in the kingdom of Goredd"--
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Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
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English
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Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain...
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Series
Tom Locke novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"In this pulse-pounding third action thriller for fans of Brad Thor and David Baldacci, a man must stop traitors-and former colleagues-who are determined to overthrow a U.S. president"--
11) Hiroshima
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima...
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Series
Central Corps (Elizabeth Bonesteel) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this follow-up to the acclaimed military science fiction thriller The Cold Between, a young soldier finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy in deep space. Six weeks ago, Commander Elena Shaw and Captain Greg Foster were court-martialed for their role in an event Central Gov denies ever happened. Yet instead of a dishonorable discharge or time in a military prison, Shaw and Foster and are now back together on Galileo. As punishment,...
13) Lines of courage
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistice Day in 1918, the story follows the fates of five young people on both sides of the conflict--each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together. Includes information on the history of the war.
14) A time for war
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English
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A Chinook helicopter carrying a squad of Navy Seals suddenly plummets to earth in Afghanistan. A car driven by FBI agents tailing a suspicious vehicle is mysteriously rendered immobile in San Francisco. The body of a Chinese agent is found floating miles from the Golden Gate Bridge after being fed to sharks. The U.S. is under secret attack and only Jack Hatfield, a popular television host hounded from his position by left-wing forces in the media...
17) Woe to live on
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English
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Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, “Woe to Live On” explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe, no one can be neutral. Roedel grows up fast, experiencing a brutal parody of war without standards or mercy. But as friends fall and families flee, he questions his loyalties and becomes an outsider...
18) On the beach
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English
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Following a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere, the inhabitants of a small Australian community wait for the inevitable aftereffects of the bombs to reach them.
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Series
Underland chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City, where he joins forces with Princess Lexa and Ripred the rat to defend the Underlanders and the Nibblers from the army led by the adolescent rat king, the Bane.
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Shadowdance novels volume 2
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English
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From USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish It's been five long years since the city learned to fear... In book #2 of the Shadowdance series, the war between the thief guilds and the powerful allegiance known as the Trifect has slowly dwindled. Now only the mysterious Haern is left to wage his private battle against the guilds in the guise of the Watcher - a vicious killer who knows no limits. But when the son of Alyssa Gemcroft, one of the three...
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