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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Pays tribute to the generation of Americans who fought in World War II, telling the stories of individual men and women who, united by common purpose and values, served their country overseas and returned to create modern America.
Author
Language
English
Description
'There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.' Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced into hard labour until the end of the war. Now ninety-four, she has spent her life educating young people about the Holocaust and answering their questions...
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
With its Pacific fleet largely in ruins after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. badly needed a victory over Japan to prove its military strength. One daring plan, involving Army bombers, a Navy aircraft carrier and a well-known racing and stunt pilot from the 1920s and 30s brought America the military respect it desperately needed and even changed the entire course of the war. Here is the incredible story of 80 men, 16 planes and one of history's...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sophia Spencer has loved bugs ever since a butterfly landed on her shoulder--and wouldn't leave!--at a butterfly conservancy when she was only two-and-a-half years old. In preschool and kindergarten, Sophia was thrilled to share what she knew about grasshoppers (her very favorite insects), as well as ants and fireflies . . . but by first grade, not everyone shared her enthusiasm. Some students bullied her, and Sophia stopped talking about bugs altogether....
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Bill Putney describes his World War II experiences as the Commanding Officer of the 3rd War Dog Platoon, and later the chief veterinarian of the War Dog Training School at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; focusing on the role of the dogs in the battle for Guam and other islands of the Pacific.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
13) Underground in Berlin: a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel America together, 'spreading the message of stubborn positivity.' In 2010, Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine RECON--the most elite fighters in the Corps--in a remote part of Afghanistan. While on patrol, he spotted a young dog 'with a big goofy head and little legs' who didn't...
Publisher
History Channel Club
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Gettysburg was the most famous battle of the American Civil War. History forgot one of the battle's chapters: how the citizens of Gettysburg fared during the three days of battle. Re-live their experiences through diaries, photographs and factual re-enactments. They never expected the war to come to their town, but when it did, the residents of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania became heroes. Some townsmen, including seventy-year-old John Burns, joined the...
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