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1) Ender's game
Author
Series
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once again, the Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin is a brilliant, ruthless, cunning, a tactical and strategic master, and a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions?...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
From the author of Ender's Game, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning international best seller, comes the parallel novel, Ender's Shadow. In the first book, child-hero Ender Wiggin battles a deadly alien race and wins. But Ender wasn't the only child in his Battle School. There was also Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend- the only one who was with him in the final battle. Now Bean's whole story is...
Author
Publisher
Entagled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It's only when he sees her--a young woman with wild, amber eyes who's as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves--that he feels the warmth of life in his blood. The other Knights may fear their lethal commander, with his hard, merciless...
5) Soldier boy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
x, 326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jacob is a 14-year-old Ugandan who is sent away to a boys' school. Once there, he assures his friend Tony that they need not be afraid -- they will be safe. But not long after, in the shadow of the night, the boys are abducted. Marched into the jungle, they are brought to an encampment of the feared rebel soldiers. Told that they must kill or be killed, the boys are thrust into a terrifying struggle to endure and survive. In time, the boys escape....
7) Hero dad
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A child demonstrates that while Dad differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier he is a superhero of a different kind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (95 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Ryan Cross and his Shadow Squadron, a team of elite American soldiers from the best of the best of the U.S. military, are dispatched to the Central African Republic to rescue the Secretary of State when his chopper crashes. They will need all the stealth training they have to get in and out without getting involved with the wars between the Republic's militias.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2015].
Lexile measure
AD 410L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text portray a bear cub who understands that because Papa is a soldier, he sometimes must go, but imagines what it would be like to stay near by riding in Papa's backpack.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father's native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads. Her boyfriend has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted. One day, in the middle of an important business meeting, she hears a stranger's voice in her head that causes her to leave the office without...
11) The child thief
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
x, 481 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief-a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of Faerie. As Gregory Maguire did with his New York Times bestselling Wicked novels, Brom takes a classic children's tale and turns it inside-out, painting a Neverland that, like Maguire's Oz, is darker, richer,...
12) Blood Scion
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at will; she is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. But under the brutal rule of the Lucis, her identity means her death. Her mother knew as much. She disappeared trying to hide Sloane's truth. Sloane, too, has hidden her abilities, but on her fifteenth birthday, she is conscripted into the Lucis army. Once taken, Sloane must not only conceal her power but overcome the bloody challenges...
13) I am the traitor
Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After breaking free of The Program, Boy Nobody is on a mission of his own to reclaim his life and rescue his friend Howard from the secret organization that has turned him and other orphaned children into trained assassins--but he has no idea who, if anyone, he can trust, or what the consequences will be if he succeeds in bringing down The Program." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1140L
Physical Desc
xii, 142 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In this debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started - a life...
Author
Publisher
Advantage Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 22 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dad is now deployed and another adventure begins. Danny and the Deployer have to put together a care package. What is in the care package? Why is it classified? Meet Danny's new friends and join in with them on this adventure!
16) Hero mom
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A tribute to moms who serve their country in the military reveals their contributions as unsung heroes who construct buildings, fly planes, drive tanks and do many other important things to make the world a safer place.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam Childers is a drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing spiritual transformation and makes a life-changing decision to travel to war-torn East Africa. After witnessing unspeakable horrors faced by innocent children, he vows to save them at any cost, including his own safety. Childers begins waging a relentless battle against the territory's renegade militia, leading harrowing missions behind enemy lines to rescue kidnapped orphans and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chip shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken: he was once a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent...