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Series
Magic tree house. Super edition volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"The magic tree house has taken Jack and Annie back in time to England in 1944. England is fighting for its life in World War II. Before long, Jack and Annie find themselves parachuting into Normandy, France, behind enemy lines. The date is June 5. Will the brave brother and sister team be able to make a difference during one of the darkest times in history?"--
22) Boxes for Katje
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Includes nonfiction tips for helping children of military families. Nine-year-old Lizzie writes to her mother, who is deployed overseas during wartime, and includes maps that show her mother what Lizzie has been thinking and doing. Includes nonfiction tips for helping children of military families. Lizzie's mom is serving in the military overseas, and Lizzie really misses her. While they are apart, Lizzie and her mom write letters to each other to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
520L
Formats
Description
When the magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to World War II, Europe is in trouble! It is June 1944 and the brother-and-sister team must go behind enemy lines and crack a code that could save a lot of lives. But this is war, and Jack and Annie might just be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Can they save everyone before the great battle of D-Day begins? They don’t know, but they have to try!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
As a boy, Kenichi "Zeni" Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense...
35) Pearl Harbor
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes events leading up to the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the attack itself on Dec. 7, 1941.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sarah Emma Edmonds started pretending at a very early age. Her father only wanted sons, so Sarah pretended to be one. Unlike most kids, though, Sarah never really stopped pretending. In 1861, during the U.S. Civil War, Sarah pretended her way into the Union Army, becoming a male nurse named Frank Thompson. Being a nurse didn't quite satisfy "Frank," though. She wanted to keep her fellow soldiers from getting hurt. So when the Union Army needed a spy,...
38) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As the sixteenth US president, Abraham Lincoln led the country through the American Civil War. Historic photos and easy-to-read text take readers into the life of the man who worked to keep the US together. Zoom in even deeper with quick stats, a timeline, and bolded glossary terms. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"A touching story about Japanese American children who corresponded with their beloved librarian while they were imprisoned in World War II internment camps. When Executive Order 9066 is enacted after the attack at Pearl Harbor, children's librarian Clara Breed's young Japanese American patrons are to be sent to prison camp. Before they are moved, Breed asks the children to write her letters and gives them books to take with them. Through the three...
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