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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Can you imagine shooting down 26 German planes? Or how about organizing an all-female battalion? These were everyday events for people during World War I. Experience their triumphs and defeats first-hand as you read about an American fighter pilot, a Russian peasant, a German submarine commander, and more.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Takes readers on a historical journey with 12 engaging chapters about World War I. With colorful spreads featuring the war's critical moments, key players, and lasting effects paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and a timeline, the book provides a holistic view of the event.
7) World War I
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
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World War I describes how the major power struggles of Europe (supported by various colonial holdings and the British alliance with Japan) erupted into a global war that was marked by new forms of combat that included trench warfare, strategies of attrition, and the first use of airpower.
10) A long way to go
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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An eight-year-old girl deals with the women's suffrage movement that rages during World War I.
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Dog chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
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In Cosham, England, in 1917, Darling, a mischievous collie, must leave the children who love her when she is chosen for training as a mercy dog, seeking out injured soldiers on the battlefield and leading medics to them.
12) The iron island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"A German submarine has torpedoed the steamship Maiden! The damaged ship is an iron island in the sea. The Oliver family arrives to repair the vessel. When the Germans return to sink the ship, they capture Samuel's father and uncle. Can Samuel rescue his family?"--Back cover.
13) War horse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
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"Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has adapted his much-loved novel, War Horse, for a picture book audience. This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse and is a gateway to help children understand the history and deadly chaos of the First World War. As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, War Horse remains an important book for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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"An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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When several sailors are trapped in a sunken battleship, the Oliver family is called on to rescue them. But Samuel's father and uncle are too big to move in the sunken boat. So Samuel descends into the deep. Can Samuel find the sailors in the dangerous wreck and lead them to safety? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1090L
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Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
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"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
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,...
19) Private Peaceful
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
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