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Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future."--Publisher.
3) Ship Breaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, this thrilling bestseller and National Book Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties.
In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging...
In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging...
4) Ship breaker
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
2025.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
How do spies use surveillance to gain intelligence about their targets? In this title, readers will learn about how spies used surveillance techniques in the past like bugs, wires, cameras, and opening and reading mail. They will also learn about modern surveillance like drones, spy planes, and satellites.--from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The United States entered World War II after a surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. U.S. officials feared that Japanese Americans would betray their country and help Japan. Nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were taken from their homes and moved into relocation centers, which some viewed as concentration camps. The internees, backed by many other Americans, believed that their fundamental rights as U.S. citizens had been denied. Years...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From the first rockets used to fire arrows to modern computer-controlled cruise missiles and wire-guided High Explosive Anti-Tank Missiles, twelve dioramic scenes reveal how rockets and missiles have gradually become the primary weapons of mechanized warfare."