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1) War horse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
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English
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Have you ever wondered what happened to the Five Children and its characters when the First World War began? Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane is at high school. The Lamb is the grown up age of 11, and he has a little sister, Edith, in tow. The sand fairy has become a creature of stories ...until he suddenly reappears. The siblings are pleased to have something to take their minds off the war,...
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English
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An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhumanity of war, In Flanders Fields tells the story of a young homesick World War I soldier who risks his life to cross the no-man's-land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire that separates the opposing forces.
6) Avis Dolphin
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Language
English
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Avis Dolphin's hesitation about traveling on the Lusitania disappears once aboard the ship, where she meets a professor who tells her stories about the magical island of Foula.
7) Captain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Billy, the youngest soldier in his platoon, is afraid when he learns that the platoon is sailing to Gallipoli, but aboard ship he meets a young stowaway, Captain, and his donkey and together they teach Billy about bravery and loyalty.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In early twentieth-century England, Clarry Penrose longs for an education and life of her own, but it is not until her beloved cousin, Rupert, is declared missing during World War I that she can take her chance.
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Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In 1914 France, a British soldier writes to his mother about the strange events of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, when German and Allied soldiers met on neutral ground to share songs, food, and fun. Includes historical notes and glossary.
14) A bear in war
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Publisher
Key Porter Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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15) All is fair
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Publisher
Swoon Reads
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"It's 1918, and war is raging across Europe. When Lady Mina Tretheway receives a telegram at boarding school, she doesn't want to read it--telegrams never bring good news. The message is written in a cryptic code, and Mina is soon pulled out of school and into a secret wartime mission with a dashing American spy" -- Provided by publisher.
16) Lovely war
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Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates -- and the hearts -- of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, is...
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