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War Stories
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Fictional and true accounts of war experiences throughout history.
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Alban, Andrea Anya's War In 1937, the privileged and relatively carefee life of a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, whose family emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, to Shanghai, China, comes to an end when she finds an abandoned baby, her hero, Amelia Earhart, goes missing, and war breaks out with Japan. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell The Boy Who Dared In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hu¨bener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people. 2008 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell Hitler Youth : Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought gave Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. 2005 Children's Nonfiction Book Other formats available |
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Bruchac, Joseph Code Talker : a Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two Although being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers during World War II, sending messages in their native tongue. 2005 Teen Fiction Book |
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Coates, Jan A Hare in the Elephant's Trunk Inspired by the real life experiences of a Sudanese boy, follows Jacob Akech Deng's journey as he flees his home under the threat of war, and, guided by the memory of his mother, tries to survive in a refugee camp. 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Collier, James Lincoln My Brother Sam Is Dead Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral. 1974 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Dau, John Bul Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan Chronicles the experiences of a husband and wife who as children fled the poverty and violence of southern Sudan, describing the devastating impact of famine and war on the region while sharing memories of their efforts to adapt to American life. 2010 Children's Nonfiction Book |
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Deng, Alephonsion They Poured Fire On Us from the Sky : the True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan Describes the life-threatening ordeals endured by the authors and tens of thousands of other children escaping African civil war in the late 1980s, including near-starvation, illnesses, and massacres. 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Dudley, David L. Caleb's Wars 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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Dunlap, Susanne Emily In the Shadow of the Lamp Sixteen-year-old Molly Fraser works as a nurse with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War to earn a salary to help her family survive in nineteenth-century England. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Friedman, Devin A Soldiers' Portfolio: This is Our War: Servicemen's Photographs of Life in Iraq Accompanied by descriptive text, a compilation of 256 snapshots taken by soldiers on the ground in Iraq offer a personal record of the Iraq War and the experiences of Americans. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Frost, Helen Crossing Stones In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage. 2009 Teen Fiction Book |
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Grant, K. M. Blood Red Horse A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers and those around them as they fight with King Richard I against Saladin's armies during the Third Crusades. 2005 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Haney, Eric L. Inside Delta Force: the Story of America's Elite Counter-terrorist Unit One of the founding operatives of America's elite counter terrorism unit, Delta Force, delivers this never-before-told inside story of how the unit came to be. 2006 Children's Nonfiction Book |
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Holub, Josef An Innocent Soldier A sixteen-year-old farmhand is tricked into fighting in the Napoleonic Wars by the farmer for whom he works, who secretly substitutes him for the farmer's own son. 2005 Teen Fiction Book |
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Jacobson, Sidney The 9/11 Report: a Graphic Depiction Although less than 25% of the 9/11 Commission Report's length, this adaptation distinctly captures the meaning of the original report begining with a visual representaion of the four flights and continuing with the analysis of the history, politics, procedural and other issues that shaped the events of 9/11. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book Other formats available |
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King, A. S. Everybody Sees the Ants : a Novel Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Kopelman, Jay From Baghdad, with Love: a Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava During his tour of duty in Iraq, Lt. Colonel Kopelman of the U.S. Marines and his comrades break strick military rules and adopt an abandoned puppy left behind after a battle in the dangerous red zone. The dog, Lava, was eventually smuggled out of Iraq by the soldiers, with the help of NPR reporters, and Iraqi citizens. 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Krakauer, Jon Where Men Win Glory: the Odyssey of Pat Tillman Traces the controversial story of NFL player, Pat Tillman, who walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army after 9/11. 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Lawton, Clive. Hiroshima: the Story of the First Atom Bomb When the atomic bomb exploded at 8:15 a.m. on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, 70,000 people were killed instantly. Thousands more were dead of radiation sickness within weeks. More still were sick, scarred, and deformed for the rest of their lives by the chemicals in the bomb. By drawing on primary sources and startling photographs, Lawton explores the politics and the science behind this far reaching military decision. 2004 Children's Nonfiction Book |
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