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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Two young men, in jail "for crimes of dubious legitimacy" are given a reprieve by their captors: to find a dozen eggs for a powerful colonel to use in his daughter's wedding cake. The unlikely pair scour the city during the siege of St. Petersburg.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"A poignant and inspiring memoir. . . . Dole's odyssey of courage and determination can be a guideline to us all."- Philadelphia Inquirer
In his own words, Bob Dole tells his legendary World War II story-a personal odyssey of tremendous courage, sacrifice, and faith
In One Soldier's Story, Dole recites the moving, inspirational story of his harrowing experience in World War II, and how he overcame life-threatening injuries long before rising to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
1944. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado-- until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. At the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment...
5) Caleb's wars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Caleb's courageous commitment to justice grows as he faces a power struggle with his father, fights to keep both his temper and self-respect in dealing with whites, and puzzles over the German prisoners of war brought to his rural Georgia community during World War II.
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