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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
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Women of valor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Readers know of the bravery, boldness, and spirit shown by the thousands of soldiers who fought valiantly during World War II. Lesser known, perhaps, but equally dramatic were the roles that women played in the conflict, both as support from home and as part of the fight near the front lines. For Such a Time, the first novel in Elyse Larson's WOMEN OF VALOR series explores the lives of two cousins--one French, the other American--who find the courage...
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Women of valor volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Memorable Characters Come to Life in WOMEN OF VALOR In this story, Nella inadvertently uncovers evidence that the death of an American soldier was a murder, not a suicide, and she becomes the next target for the killer. Suddenly it seems that everyone is a suspect or has something to hide. Who can she turn to when everyone seems to be harboring secrets and her own heart seems untrue? Will God's goodness and faithfulness surmount even the horrors of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
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English
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From Pevear and Volokhonsky, the bestselling, award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov," comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy's master epic.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield--weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion--this...
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Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Since it was first published in 1974, "The Killer Angels" has become the most belove, widely-read Civil War novel of the post-World War II era. Shaara's unforgettable novel served as the basis for the acclaimed feature film Gettysburg, has sold millions of copies, and inspired the bestselling Civil War novels Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure by his son, Jeff Shaara. After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print,...
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Children's illustrated classics volume 90
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run...As far as war was concerned he knew nothing of himself." And he does run in his first battle, full of fear and then remorse. He encounters a grotesquely rotting corpse propped against a tree, and a column of wounded men, one of whom is a friend who dies horribly in front of him.
13) Wicked saints
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Something dark and holy volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A girl who can speak to gods, a prince who must learn whom to trust, and a boy with a monstrous secret seek to assassinate the king and stop a centuries-long war.
Nadya, a girl who can speak to gods, must save her people without destroying herself. A prince in danger must decide who to trust. A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. In a centuries-long war, their paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints. Together,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "The Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace."
From...
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Series
Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 38
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"It's 1947 and 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 fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find...
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Women of valor volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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The Exciting Conclusion to the WOMEN OF VALOR series!Will They Escape the Sinister Forces That Are Closing in on Them? Uncovering a diabolical Nazi plot, Marge Emerson is secretly reassigned to a medical post in France. There she meets a conscientious objector and finds his outspoken belief in God a challenge to her own fragile faith. When David shares his desire to return to Europe after the war and build an orphanage for Germany's homeless children,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"His code name was 'The Needle.' He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence?a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history...But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom?and win the war for the Nazis..."--Publisher's description.
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