Trent Reedy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.
3) Gamer army
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
Even though he is only twelve, Rogan Weber is an obsessed gamer, whose motto, ego sum maximus, declares his confidence in his own abilities, and whose parents are also deeply involved in ultra high tech (a little too deeply sometimes); naturally he is thrilled to receive an invitation to join a tech giant's virtual reality TV gaming contest--but as the games become more and more intense and dangerous, he and his fellow gamers realize that something...
Author
Series
Divided we fall trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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Description
Idaho is a war zone under Federal occupation, and Danny Wright and his friends in the Idaho Militia are determined to fight back, running guerrilla missions against the army--but what at first seemed like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows murky, and Danny finds that even winning the war does not mean an end to tyranny.
Author
Series
Divided we fall trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
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Description
Having started the Second American Civil War, Danny Wright, along with his friends, finally seem to have gotten out of it when they find a hidden place to build a society of their own, free from U.S. federal rule. However, as the country burns down around them in war, Danny wonders if he can stay silent and safe, out of the action. He wonders if he can live with himself if he lets his countrymen die when he might be able to save them, even at great...
6) Stealing air
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
At age 17. Danny joins the National Guard, and when the Guard is sent to an antigovernment protest and Danny's gun accidently fires, he finds himself at the center of a conflict. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"DIVIDED WE FALL delivers cover-to-cover action, intrigue and suspense, all with a gut-punch of an ending that'll leave you begging for the next installment." -- Brad Thor, author of THE LAST PATRIOT
Danny Wright never thought he'd be the man to bring down the United States of America. In fact, he enlisted in the Idaho National Guard because he wanted to serve his country the way his father did. When the Guard is called up on the governor's orders...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Trent Reedy brings his action-packed, provocative trilogy about the second American Civil War to a stunning and stirring close in The Last Full Measure.
In a YA trilogy like no other, Trent Reedy has raised the most primal questions of our national existence: Do we owe our greatest loyalty to our friends? Our state? Our country? Our party? How do we reconcile our individual rights and common needs? What keeps us all united -- and what happens if...
11) Enduring Freedom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
September 11, 2001
Two young men on opposite sides of the world
One war that will change their lives forever Baheer, a studious Afghan teen, sees his family's life turned upside down when they lose their livelihood as war rocks the country.
A world away, Joe, a young American army private, has to put aside his dreams of becoming a journalist when he's shipped out to Afghanistan.
When Joe's unit arrives in Baheer's town, Baheer is...
12) Hunter's choice
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twelve-year-old Hunter Higgins has dreamed of, and prepared for, his first hunting trip but now that he is old enough, he wonders if he can kill an animal, especially with his long-term crush, Annette, nearby.
13) Divided We Fall
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Danny Wright, seventeen, joined the Idaho Army National Guard to serve the country as his father had, but when the Guard is sent to an anti-government protest in Boise and Danny's gun accidently fires, he finds himself at the center of a conflict that results in the federal government declaring war on Idaho.
14) Enduring freedom
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined"--