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121) Department 19
Author
Series
Department 19 volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill/Penguin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
After watching his father's brutal murder, sixteen-year-old Jamie Carpenter joins Department 19, a secret government agency, where he learns of the existence of vampires and the history that ties him to the team destined to stop them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loet Velmans was seventeen when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman's Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies-now Indonesia-where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave labor camps, building a railroad through the dense...
Series
What life was like volume 17
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
""The Rights of Man." What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights--not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was passed, while in France the nation tumbled toward revolution. In the Caribbean preachers brought word of equality, while in the South Pacific sailors mutinied. New knowledge was exploding,...
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Discusses some of the important battles in Europe during World War II, including Operation Torch, Operation Husky, the Italian campaign, Operation Overlord, the Battle of the Bulge, last battles, and VE Day.
129) After the war
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.
Author
Series
Cecelia and Kate novels volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In 1817, two English cousins take a honeymoon "Grand Tour of the Continent" with their new husbands and become entangled in a mysterious plot to create a magical Emperor of Europe.
Author
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the fate of those Jews who survived annihilation by the Nazis: their further persecution, search for a homeland in Palestine, and hunt for war criminals. Also examines other cases of genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, and elsewhere.
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the principal causes and events of World War I and considers what the outcome might have been for the participants and subsequent history had different decisions been made at crucial times before, during, and after the war.
134) The shadow war
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"World War II is raging, and five teens are looking to make a mark. Daniel and Rebeka seek revenge against the Nazis who slaughtered their family; Simone is determined to fight back against the oppressors who ruined her life and corrupted her girlfriend; Phillip aims to prove that he's better than his worst mistakes; and Liam is searching for a way to control the portal to the shadow world he's uncovered, and the monsters that live within it- before...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
"The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Juvenil
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
Español
Description
In 1882 sixteen-year-old Becky accompanied by Sally and Jim applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia.