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1) War stories
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...
2) Reckless
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While riding his dirt bike on an abandoned logging road, Josh encounters a Vietnam veteran who has been living in the wilderness for forty years, and the two develop an unusual friendship.
3) Wind Dancer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Having lost her beloved pony in a traumatic accident, thirteen-year-old Ali is reluctant to help her parents care for a neglected, malnourished Appaloosa, but working with Wind Dancer is a good distraction from problems surrounding her brother, who recently returned from Afghanistan with a missing leg and PTSD.
4) The car
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.
6) Tin soldier
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Webb puts his music career on hold while he searches for the truth about his grandfather's role in the Vietnam War"--Provided by publisher.
8) Hollow chest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
When his brother Theo returns home from World War II cold and distant, Charlie soon discovers that Theo's heart has been consumed by a war wolf, which lives off of grief, and must get Theo's heart back before it's too late.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Angela, distraught over her mother and stepfather's separation, confides in a statue of St. Felix that suddenly seems to come alive, after which she befriends Jesse, a nineteen-year-old disabled veteran, although Felix, her family, and friends warn her to be wary of him.
11) Snowboard hero
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kaleb has always looked up to his older stepbrother, Luke, in snowboarding and everything else, so when Luke is wounded in Afghanistan Kaleb is devastated--and to honor his brother he is set on competing on the difficult slopestyle course.
12) P.S. Be eleven
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her Pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to mother in Oakland, California...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her attacks. While others have always seen Toby's strangeness, Annabelle...
15) Two roads
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
"It's 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his pop have been riding the rails for a year after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a "knight of the road" with Pop, even if they're broke. But then Pop has to go to Washington, D.C.--and Cal can't go with him. So Pop tells Cal something he never knew before: He's a Creek Indian, which means Cal is, too. And Pop has decided to send Cal to Challagi Indian School, a government...
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sammy meets a mysterious man who dies of a heart attack after telling her to get rid of the large amount of money he is carrying, leading her to investigate who the man was and how he came to be carrying so much cash.
17) Sentries
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter, with the lives of three veterans of past wars.
18) Pax
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come. Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's...
19) Heroes: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After serving in the United States Army in World War II and having his face blown off by a grenade, Francis, a young soldier, returns home hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Even though it's now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves), and Chatham, Canada, are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.