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82) Lost boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1982 Iran, twelve-year-old Reza is more interested in music than war, but enlists in obedience to his devout mother and soon finds himself in a prison camp in Iraq.
83) The note through the wire: the incredible true story of a prisoner of war and a resistance heroine
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One an underground resistance fighter, a bold young woman determined to vanquish the enemy occupiers; the other a prisoner of war, a man longing to escape the confines of the camp so he can battle again. A crumpled note passes between these two strangers, slipped through the wire of the compound, and sets them on a course that will change their lives forever....
85) Liberty
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Series
Dogs of World War II volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1940s New Orleans, Fish Elliot is a polio-survivor with a knack for inventing and building things, and his African American neighbor Olympia is a girl with a talent for messing things up, but they are united in an effort to save a starving stray dog they call Liberty--and when Liberty is caged by a nasty farmer, they find an unlikely ally in a German prisoner of war, Erich, who is not much older than the two children.
Series
Transformers volume 2
Description
When college-bound Sam Witwicky learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers, he must accept his destiny and join Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in their epic battle against the Decepticons, who have returned stronger than ever with a plan to destroy the world. Includes documentary, featurettes, deleted scenes, alternate scenes, trailer, and more.
88) Take me home
Author
Formats
Description
Miller's Creek, Wisconsin, 1945. Olivia Marsten never imagined she'd be a war bride. But when her childhood best friend surprises her with a marriage proposal before he leaves to serve with the Navy, she reluctantly accepts even though her heart belongs to someone else. Sparks fly the moment mysterious stranger Peter Becker lays eyes on Olivia. but Peter harbors a dark secret. The son of an American soldier, he was forced to join the Reich's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In April 1941, a passenger ship sailing from New York to Cape Town was attacked and sunk by a German raider in the South Atlantic. The passengers were pulled from the waters and transported to Nazi-occupied France, where the majority, as (at that time) neutral citizens of the United States, were released and returned home. News of their fortunate escape soon broke and the story became an overnight sensation. Yet amidst the excitement generated by...
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
"Tenney's searing wartime experiences and a subsequent close friendship with a Japanese exchange student bring a unique perspective to the current debates over Japan's wartime culpability, the morality of the atomic bombings, and relations today between Japanese and Americans. My Hitch in Hell is a first-person account of one of the twentieth century's great tragedies and a prisoner survival epic that contains inspiring lessons for everyone."--BOOK...
91) A soldier's book
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
A Union trooper struggles to survive violence, overcrowding and disease in a Confederate prison during the Civil War. Ira Cahill Stevens must also fight the temptation to gain his freedom by switching sides. By the author of The Importance of High Places.
92) Enemy tribe
Author
Series
Ancestors saga volume 4
Description
The breathtaking story that has enthralled readers from around the world. Continue your epic adventure 40,000 years into our own dark and forgotten past with The Last Kamaali, the concluding novel in The Ancestors Saga.
Courage. Truth. Sacrifice.
Nyriaana and Juaan are no longer protected by the might of the Hunting Bear Clan. Alone and on the run, they need to choose their allies and enemies wisely if they are to evade the vengeful clutches of...
Author
Description
"This is the true story of Jim Stockdale, a navy fighter pilot shot down and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War; and his wife, Sybil, who, back home in California, carried on a valiant fight on behalf of her husband and all other POWs during the eight years of his imprisonment. Vice Admiral Stockdale entered the fray as a commander in 1964, when the American commitment totaled about 16,00o men, and left it in 1973, when the number was about the...
Author
Pub. Date
©2009
Description
"On April 19, 1967, Leo Thorsness was on a mission over North Vietnam when his wingman was shot down by an enemy MiG that then lined up for a gunnery pass on the two American pilots who had bailed out. Although his F-105 was not designed for aerial combat, Thorsness immediately engaged the enemy aircraft and destroyed it. When Thorsness spotted four more MiGs, he fought his way through a barrage of North Vietnamese SAMs to engage them too, shooting...
Author
Formats
Description
Sentry Dance Pickett has watched, helpless, as conditions in the Andersonville Prison worsen. Southern belle Violet Stiles cannot believe the good folk of Americus would condone such barbarism. Confederate corporal Emery Jones found an unexpected camaraderie with the Union prisoner he escorted there. When they cross paths, Emery leads Dance and Violet to a daring act. Wrestling with God's harsh truth, they must decide: Who is my neighbor?
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Weller covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At war's end, correspondents were forbidden to enter Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but Weller, presenting himself as a U.S. colonel, set out to explore the devastation. As Nagasaki's first outside observer, he witnessed the bomb's effects. He interviewed doctors trying to cure those dying mysteriously from "Disease X." He sent his forbidden dispatches back to MacArthur's...