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1) World War II
Author
Language
English
Description
Photographs and illustrations describe the events of World War II, from the British, French, Italian, and German pre-war preparations to the atomic bomb and defeat of Japan and the German surrender.
10) What was D-Day?
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
107 pages : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of D-Day on June 6, 1944 when allied forces crossed the English Channel to land in France to defeat Hitler in World War II.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cornerstones of freedom. Second series. Discusses the mass relocation of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II, profiling individuals such as Daniel Inouye, Yoshiko Uchida, and George Takei.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cornerstones of freedom. Second series. Explores the relationship between the United States and Japan that led to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941, and to the United States' entry into World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
60 p. : ill. (mostly col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moving account of Jewish children from Nazi Germany during World War II that were placed on the Kindertransport to Britain to save their lives just weeks before the Nazis burned their orphanage down.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sis honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Joe Rosenthal photograph taken during World War II during the second flag raising on Iwo Jima.
20) Dear Miss Breed
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
True stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and a librarian who made a difference.