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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
In "American Gun", the deadliest sniper in U.S. history tracks down and shoots the most important American firearms, from a flintlock rifle to a Colt revolver to the latest high-tech weapon he used as a SEAL. Chris Kyle uses these guns as a window on United States history, making the sweeping argument that the American story has been tied to and shaped by the gun.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 66
Description
Required reading for West Point and Marine Corps cadets, Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self-interest. Massengale, however, brilliantly advances by making the right connections behind the lines and in Washington's corridors of power. Beginning in the French countryside...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 33
Description
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."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
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Description
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. This book takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Explains how the discipline, courage, and preparation of the Roman soldier combined with the strategies and tactics of his commander and the organization of the military establishment resulted in the conquest of many lands for the Roman Empire.
9) Camp Valor
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
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.
Author
Series
A Sigma Force novel volume 3
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
A fire in a Copenhagen bookstore leads Commander Gray Pierce into a mystery that is connected to horrific Nazi experiments, an insidious madness affecting Buddhist monks, a possible mythological beast run amok in South Africa, and a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 41
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Description
A look at the U.S. military Special Forces, during the last five decades, through the eyes of retired general Carl Stiner, who has spent many years leading America's Special Forces in such missions as Desert Storm and the Panama invasion.
14) Battle ready
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 32
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. Writing under a pseudonym to protect his anonymity, a member of the elite SEAL Team Six provides a behind-the-scenes, first-person account of all his dangerous assignments around the globe, including the training, planning and execution of his most important...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©1993, 2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. This beautiful novel reminds us how wonderful and wounding a deeper understanding of life...
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