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2) Wolf Hollow
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"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, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her attacks. While others have always seen Tobys strangeness, Annabelle...
3) War stories
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games, and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village, and was given a hero's welcome upon his return to America. Now it's decades later, and Jacob wants to retrace the steps he took during the war--from training to invasion to the village he is said to have saved. Trevor...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kaleb has always looked up to his older stepbrother, Luke, in snowboarding and everything else, so when Luke is wounded in Afghanistan, Kaleb is devastated. To honor his brother, he is set on competing on the difficult slopestyle course.
6) Pax
Author
Series
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--
Author
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
When it comes to American history or defending the underdog or getting to the bottom of things, no one outsmarts or outfights Lyndie B. Hawkins. But as far as her family goes, her knowledge is full of holes: What exactly happened to Daddy in Vietnam? Why did he lose his job? And why did they have to move in with her grandparents? Grandma Lady's number one rule is Keep Quiet About Family Business. But when her beloved daddy goes missing, Lyndie faces...
8) Hollow chest
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When his brother Theo returns home from World War II cold and distant, Charlie soon discovers that Theo's heart has been consumed by a war wolf, which lives off of grief, and must get Theo's heart back before it's too late.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Cody and his father, an undercover agent, are nearly killed, Cody moves in with his aunt in Connecticut, where he is helped with his adjustment to the trials of attending public school for the first time and investigating a threat in nearby woods by a wounded Iraq War veteran.
10) Two roads
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.--
12) No slam dunk
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Annapolis, Maryland, seventh-grader Wes is a good teammate but this basketball season has been challenging because of his ball hog teammate Dinero, who is determined to steal the spotlight, and Wes's army veteran father who is suffering from PTSD.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy asks his father for help after his teacher asks each of her pupils to name a veteran whom he or she knows. The boy soon discovers that many of the familiar people who work in his neighborhood are heroes who have served in the country's military.
15) Rolling Thunder
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, a boy accompanies his grandfather on the Rolling Thunder Ride for Freedom, a demonstration in Washington, DC, on Memorial Day that pays tribute to American veterans.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up.
17) This way home
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
363 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
19) Flyer
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015].
Lexile measure
HL 170L
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Eric Peters learns that a once famous World War II pilot has a P-51 Mustang stored at the local airstrip, he knows he must see it. So he goes to the nursing home to introduce himself to the now ninety-five-year-old pilot, Leo Foster. Now too old to see his dream of restoring the Mustang to flying shape, Mr. Foster encourages Eric to find someone who can fulfill his wish. But Eric's dad balks at having his son anywhere near danger. Will Eric...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
8 books, 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter resuced him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be - with Pax. He strikes out on...