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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napolean, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school, hoping that Napolean will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school.
Author
Series
World War II volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
There are few things Roman loves as much as baseball, but his country is at the top of the list. So when it looks like the United States will be swept up into World War II, he turns his back on baseball and joins the US Army.Roman doesn't mind. As it turns out, he is far more talented with a tank than he ever was with a baseball. And he is eager to drive his tank right into the field of battle, where the Army is up against the fearsome Nazis of the...
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to effect him.
Author
Series
World War II volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After America is drawn into World War II, Hank McCallum finds himself on the USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, separated from his brother Theo, in constant danger from torpedoes, and just learning about the prejudice and segregation that plague his new friend from Tonga, Bradford.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends at home and in Vietnam, but now Rudi has been killed in action, and the remaining three are the only ones who know the truth about their friend's death--and the knowledge threatens to tear them apart.
Author
Series
World War II volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Despite the fact that his brother is missing in action in the Pacific theater, Theo McCallum, a gunner on a B-24 Liberator returns to his unit in Europe to continue the war because he feels that the other men in his unit feel like family to him--and he cannot believe that his brother is actually dead.
Author
Series
World War II volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Nick talks his friend, Zachary, into joining him in Marine Corps' paratrooper combat unit for an adventure, but its soon clear that Zach is more serious about the war than Nick, until theyre assigned to a POW recovery team.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. Enlisting in the United States Army, Ivan is trained to...