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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 9
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The New York Times bestselling chronicle of one of the most famous moments in American military history—the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima during World War II—now adapted for young adults. Read the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and strength of America and its armed forces.
This is a penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, told with keen insight and enormous honesty...
This is a penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, told with keen insight and enormous honesty...
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Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
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Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
880L
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In their last year at Hogwarts Harry and his friends join the Order of the Phoenix in it's battle against Voldemort and his forces.
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1010L
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"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 8
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing, fast-paced epic, Douglas Brinkley returns to the...
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Vietnam volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
930L
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Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends at home and in Vietnam, but now Rudi has been killed in action, and the remaining three are the only ones who know the truth about their friend's death--and the knowledge threatens to tear them apart.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own.
9) Virals
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Virals novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1080L
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The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
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"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
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