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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"From the first observation and medical helicopters of World War Two and the Korean War to the Air Cavalry of Vietnam and the missile-armed attack helicopters of today's armies, twelve dioramic scenes reveal how helicopters have introduced a new dynamic into the way warfare is waged."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
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The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her...
3) Flygirl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
680L
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During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In the aftermath of the accident that killed his foster father, high school student Jacob Fielding discovers that he has acquired the power of indestructibility, and the more he learns about it the more he realizes that it is a heavy burden, if not a curse.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Worn down by the constant petitions of the villagers who think she has special powers, sixteen-year-old Sonia leaves behind her shawl covered with milagros and her mountain home and sets out to live a life of her own choosing in the capital city.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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An award-winning debut novel from a stellar new voice in middle grade fiction.Matt Pin would like to forget: war torn Vietnam, bombs that fell like dead crows, and the terrible secret he left behind. But now that he is living with a caring adoptive family in the United States, he finds himself forced to confront his past. And that means choosing between silence and candor, blame and forgiveness, fear and freedom.By turns harrowing, dreamlike, sad,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Rosalind is caught between two worlds as Gandhi's nonviolent revolution takes hold in this companion to Small Acts of Amazing Courage.
Rosalind inhabits two worlds in 1920s India. There is the world of her heritage-English to the core, with her strict father who is a major in the British Indian Army, her grieving mother, and a tutor to educate her within the walls of the luxurious estate her family occupies. And then there is the world of her homeland-or...
9) Liar's moon
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Thief errant volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
In a quest to prove her friend, Lord Durrel Decath, innocent of the murder of his wife, pickpocket Digger stumbles into a conspiracy with far-reaching consequences for the civil war raging in Lllyvraneth, while also finding herself falling in love.