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A war orphan rises from her humble beginnings to become a powerful military commander, and perhaps her country's only hope for survival.
"When Rin aced the Keju--the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to study at the academies--it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn't believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin's guardians, who always thought they'd be able to marry Rin off to...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 33
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Young black military cadet Will McLean, with a code of honor all his own, boldly confronts the terrifying injustice of a corrupt insititution as he struggles to expose a mysterious group known as "The Ten."
3) Camp Valor
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Fourteen-year-old Wyatt avoids a prison sentence by agreeing to spend three months in a secret government training camp for teenage agents, but when enemies try to root out Camp Valor's secrets, Wyatt and his friends have to put their training into practice to protect their country.
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Fleet School volume 1
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Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. He's top of his class in every school, but he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. But then Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview, and everything changes.
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A wall of silence surrounds a cadet’s death at an elite military academy: “Superb . . . This is an outstanding book.” —Publishers Weekly
Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parent’s worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice’s elite military academy.
Brunetti’s sorrow...
Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parent’s worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice’s elite military academy.
Brunetti’s sorrow...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Set in post-apocalyptic Seattle in the year 2019. Max Guevara is a young genetically created woman and part of a top-secret government elite military squad, who is living life as a bicycle messenger/fugitive in the ruins of Seattle. She is hiding from her former commanding officer, Lydecker who is looking to bring her back to his fold. Max meets and turns to Logan Cale, a crippled computer specialist/left-wing rebel who runs a pirated TV system, who...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2006
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Beginning with interviews with the last surviving drill instructors of World War II, this oral history offers the voices of veterans from every major war of the last sixty years, concluding with accounts of what it takes to train marines for Iraq today. It contains revelatory details about the vicious training techniques used to prepare marines for the great battles against Japan in the Pacific; the Ribbon Creek training disaster of the 1950s; and...
8) Stripes
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
When John Winger loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he does what any red-blooded American would do: he joins the army and nearly starts WWIII.
10) Ender's game
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Summit Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014].
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A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
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Pennyroyal Academy volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Back for their second year at Pennyroyal Academy, Evie and her friends must unravel a devious plot to bring down the academy"--
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Trouble in the stars volume 2
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Trouble, while training a rescued baby shapeshifter, must go undercover at a military academy to save Electra and the other cadets as a threat from the deep edges of space approaches.
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Archaia
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"REBELLION IS FORGED IN THE HEART OF THE EMPIRE. Before they were torn asunder, Laia lived happily and quietly with her Nan, Pop, and brother Darin within the Scholar district of Martial-ruled Serra. Although Laia is afraid to venture outside her home due to the heavy Martial presence, Darin loves to explore all parts of their home city... even those that are forbidden. A chance encounter with famed swordsmith Spiro Teluman, who sees in Darin a talent...
14) Ender's game
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Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
15) Biloxi blues
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Eugene, a raw recruit from Brooklyn, is sent to boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he expects the army to be dolls, doughnuts, and USO dances. Instead, he encounters a tough drill sergeant and a platoon of often hostile recruits.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"A girl from the forest enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons"--
19) Fireborne
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Aurelian cycle volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
"Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power"--
Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world. Now they are both rising stars in the new regime. Annie's lowborn family was executed by dragonfire, while Lee's aristocratic family was murdered by revolutionaries. Growing up in the same orphanage forged their friendship, and seven...
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Rocketship Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
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"The Roost - the world's most prestigious military academy - has never accepted a Crow into its ranks. Until now. However, the conditions surrounding Scra's acceptance are shrouded in conspiracy, and his new roommate Ky won't rest until he finds out just where he goes every night. Between flight tests, classes, and Murders, Scra, Ky, and Ree must band together to uncover the truth about their utopia and the whispers of a superweapon - "The Croaking"...
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