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(0)Trent Reedy
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
2) Stealing air
Author
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three sixth-grade boys band together to build an experimental aircraft, enduring social and practical difficulties in the process.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
September 11, 2001
Two young men on opposite sides of the world
One war that will change their lives forever Baheer, a studious Afghan teen, sees his family's life turned upside down when they lose their livelihood as war rocks the country.
A world away, Joe, a young American army private, has to put aside his dreams of becoming a journalist when he's shipped out to Afghanistan.
When Joe's unit arrives in Baheer's town, Baheer is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Danny Wright, seventeen, joined the Idaho Army National Guard to serve the country as his father had, but when the Guard is sent to an anti-government protest in Boise and Danny's gun accidently fires, he finds himself at the center of a conflict that results in the federal government declaring war on Idaho.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
296 pages; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kelton Fielding sees his chance to impress his classmates when a snowmobile race is announced, but when the popular kids follow him into the backcountry, Kelton and the others find themselves in real danger, relying on their wits and teamwork to survive.
Kelton Fielding has always felt out of place, never sure what to say to his peers who, truth be told, only tolerate him. When a snowmobile race is announced at McCalls annual Winter Festival, Kelton...
7) Gamer army
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Even though he is only twelve, Rogan Weber is an obsessed gamer, whose motto, ego sum maximus, declares his confidence in his own abilities, and whose parents are also deeply involved in ultra high tech (a little too deeply sometimes); naturally he is thrilled to receive an invitation to join a tech giant's virtual reality TV gaming contest--but as the games become more and more intense and dangerous, he and his fellow gamers realize that something...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Hunter Higgins has dreamed of, and prepared for, his first hunting trip but now that he is old enough, he wonders if he can kill an animal, especially with his long-term crush, Annette, nearby.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined" --