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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
Author
Language
English
Description
"On the icy edge of Soviet Russia, bold and reckless Nina Markova joins the infamous Night Witches - an all-female bomber regiment - wreaking havoc on Hitler's eastern front. But when she is downed behind enemy lines and thrown across the path of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, Nina must use all her wits to survive. British war correspondent Ian Graham has witnessed the horrors of war from Omaha Beach to the Nuremburg Trials. He abandons...
Author
Series
A Maisie Dobbs novel volume 15
Language
English
Description
"When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice--Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie escape Hitler's Munich in 1938. MacFarlane...
4) Mischling
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2016.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (11 hrs.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past.
Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood.
As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (14 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-Day in 1944, Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to fight, but he continues to serve his country by training new resistance fighters. One of the recruits under his tutelage is Madeleine, a spellbinding,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Findaway World
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (6 hr.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings to bold life the remarkable story of the Danish resistance and rescue of over 7,000 Jews during WWII.
When the Nazis invaded Denmark the morning of Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go about their daily lives as if nothing had changed....
Author
Series
I survived volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
Author
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (approximately 12 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Germany, 1939. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself on the run from a government that wants to see her, along with every other Jew, dead. Then she meets a mysterious man who needs Sarah to pull off a spy mission he can't attempt on his own: infiltrate a boarding school attended by the daughters of Nazi top brass, befriend the girl whose father is a high-ranking scientist, and find the blueprints to a bomb...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (2 hr., 44 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1942, amid a growing German threat, Nazi agents infiltrated the United States in hopes of destroying American infrastructure and sowing panic throughout the nation. Nazi Saboteurs tells the nail-biting tale of this daring plot, buried in history, for young readers for the first time. Black-and-white historical photos throughout paint a picture of a nation on edge, the FBI caught unawares, and the incredible capture of eight dangerous criminals....
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (13 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this war-room account from inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan leading to Armageddon on August 6, 1945. Here are the strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations, and planned invasions that resulted in history's first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing chaotic days as Japan struggled to respond to the reality of nuclear war. As...
16) The bicycle spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in possession of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series. As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war...