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1) Sharpshooter
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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
Vietnam volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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
Vietnam volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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
Vietnam volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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 (Chris Lynch) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
When the draft board calls on the eve of World War II, Roman leaves behind a career in minor-league baseball to join the army, and finds himself driving a tank in the North African campaign.
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland.
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