Alan Gratz
1) Heroes
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. With their dads stationed at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii, the boys get to soak up the sunshine while writing and drawing their own comic books. World War II might be raging overseas, but so far America has stayed out of the fight. There's nothing to fear, right? December 7th, 1941: Everything implodes. Frank and Stanley are touring a battleship when Japanese planes zoom overhead,...
2) Refugee
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
3) Ground Zero
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
4) Projekt 1065
Author
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065," both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.
5) Allies
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
6) Grenade
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
8) Two degrees
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida--they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Iranian-American Kamran Smith learns that his big brother, Darius, has been labeled a terrorist, he sets out to piece together the codes and clues that will save his brother's life and his country from a deadly terrorist attack." -- Provided by publisher.
10) Ban this book
Author
Publisher
Starscape
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
A fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don't mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books as they start a secret banned books locker library, make up ridiculous reasons to ban every...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 480L
Physical Desc
165 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling historical adventure set during World War II, Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter threat like none they've ever seen--a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace. How can Cap and Buck fight something...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
334 pages : Illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wielding the Dragon Lantern, the maniacal Philomena Moffet unleashes a monster army on the American continent, forcing Archie to put aside his reservations about his league membership and rally his forces to stop the threat.
Author
Series
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Archie Dent and his friends Hachi and Fergus, the first three members of a new League of Seven, a group of heroes who come together to fight the Mangleborn whenever the monsters arise to destroy humanity, undertake separate missions and in the course of their adventures meet potential candidates to join their League while learning deep-rooted secrets that could destroy the League forever.
Author
Publisher
Starscape, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In an alternate 1875 America electricity is forbidden, Native Americans and Yankees are united, and eldritch evil lurks in the shadows. Young Archie Dent knows there really are monsters in the world. His parents are members of the Septemberist Society, whose job it is to protect humanity from hideous giants called the Mangleborn. Trapped in underground prisons for a thousand years, the monsters have been all but forgotten--until now. Evil genius Thomas...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, un sello editorial de Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
165 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
En esta emocionante aventura hist̤rica ambientada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Steve Rogers (alias Capit̀n Am̌rica) y su joven compąero Bucky Barnes se enfrentan a una amenaza nunca antes vista: un eǰrcito fantasma. Los muertos de esta guerra y de guerras anteriores est̀n volviendo a la vida, inmunes a las balas, las llamas o cualquier otra cosa que los aliados puedan arrojarles. Los eǰrcitos salen de sus tumbas en la noche y parecen...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
59 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follow Samira as she journeys through the Nazi-occupied French countryside, on a daring rescue mission to find her captured mother. Accompanied only by a loyal dog named Cyrano, Samira must rely on her courage and wits to avoid and outsmart the German forces. But it's D-Day, and with the Allied forces landing in Europe, fierce battles are raging all around. Can Samira reach her mother and save her in time?