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Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
A beautifully illustrated version of the classic fairy tale about a tin soldier's adventure and his love for a ballerina, retold with a twist.
With her signature warmth and lyricism, Newbery winner Cynthia Rylant has crafted a new version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tin soldier who falls in love with a ballerina. As in the original story, the tin soldier's love for the beautiful ballerina is thwarted by a goblin. The...
2) Imagine me
Author
Series
Shatter me volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The finale to the Shatter Me series. Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie? Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong -- between Ella and Juliette -- blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her...
3) Dear John
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When a rebel serving in the Army meets the girl of his dreams, he must face an impossible choice as a national tragedy forces them apart in this powerful New York Times bestseller.An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life—until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for...
4) Remembrance
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her beloved Italian homeland shattered in the wake of World War II, exquisite Serena, Principessa di San Tibaldo, has nothing left except her name, her ancestry... and her heart which she gives completely and forever to Major Brad Fullerton. But not even Brad's ring—or his child—can protect her from the calculating wrath of the powerful Fullerton dynasty, and the woman who will become Serena's bitter enemy. Sweeping from the war-torn palazzos...
5) Shatter me
Author
Series
Shatter me volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
With her Marine husband serving overseas, will Jenna trust God's plans for their marriage--or find comfort in another's arms? Jenna Beaumont Mason had her marriage all planned out. But what she didn't plan was her husband, Kevin, unexpectedly reenlisting in the U.S. Marines--without her knowledge. When Kevin is assigned to serve in Iraq, Jenna struggles with loneliness and resentment at his lengthy absence. This is not the life she wanted. With the...
Author
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For Ginger Martin, her late husband's farm is both a treasured legacy and a burden. Keeping the farm going and feeding her children's hopes without him seems impossible. By coincidence, a stranger appears in Ginger's life, always showing up to help in unexpected and much-needed ways. Ginger understands that Samuel is a kindred spirit, longing to repair his life. And only by coming to terms with their losses and the necessity of change will they be...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1944 Chicago, Liz Stephens reluctantly agrees to ghostwrite a letter to soldier Morgan McClain, who is stationed overseas, for her friend Betty and becomes torn by her feelings for a man who doesn't know her true identity.
11) Soldier boys
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.
12) Remembering you
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
While her grandfather is reunited with the woman he once saved, she is reunited with the man she once loved. Thirty-six-year-old Ava Andrews life interrupted by an unusual request—fulfill her 83-year-old grandfather's last wish by joining him on a battlesite tour of Europe. Ava and Grandpa Jack arrive in Europe and meet up with Paul, her grandpa's best friend, and his grandson Dennis. The Dennis who just happens to be Ava's first love. Before
...13) The brave
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his estranged soldier son, Danny, is charged with murder while serving in Iraq, Tom Bedford must come to terms with his own past--during which a shocking act of violence ended his parents' idyllic Hollywood union--if he is going to help exonerate Danny.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.
15) Take me home
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Olivia Marsten is unable to deny her feelings for Peter Becker, an escaped POW who wants to spend every moment he can with her before he must turn himself in, threatening the fragile future they are trying to build.
16) Legend
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
18) Steelstriker
Author
Series
Skyhunter volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"With her friends scattered by combat and her mother held captive by the Premier, Talin is forced to betray her fellow Strikers and her adopted homeland. She has no choice but to become the Federation's most deadly war machine as their newest Skyhunter."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jake Paynter is in deep trouble. With a $1000 bounty on his head, every law man, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi is gunning for him. Jake's plan to lay low with the Shoshone quickly falls apart, but before he can leave for far Yellowstone, his two best friends, Gus Rivers and Stacy Blue, show up with a dilemma. Miners at South Pass City are getting murdered by a man or beast - no one is certain - and his immigrant friends from...
20) Blind fall
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Disgraced after a split-second decision nearly kills his marine captain, Iraq war veteran John Houck struggles to redeem himself in his captain's eyes and stumbles on a horrifying murder scene that wrongfully implicates the captain's partner.