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Author
Series
I survived volume 18
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this 18th installment of the I Survived series shines a spotlight on the story of the Normandy landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history and foundation for the Allied victory in World War II"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As a humanitarian, he helped aid workers heal orphaned children in Rwanda and lived in camps alongside Bosnian refugees. As a warrior, he excelled at the hardest military training in the world and teamed up with fellow SEALs to hunt al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. In this adaptation of his memoir, The Heart and the Fist, Eric Greitens brings his adventures to life for teens, sharing stories of friendship, struggle, and hard-earned wisdom. His exciting...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The military teaches teamwork, fitness, and decision-making. It also trains service members in skilled occupations that are useful while they're in the armed forces and, later, in civilian life. There are hundreds of these military occupational specialties (MOSs). You're free to choose any MOS, depending on your qualifications, as soon as you join up. For many recruits, the chance for paid training in a job they enjoy is one of the best aspects of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Like all young Israelis, Valérie Zenatti enlisted in the national defense service on her 18th birthday, where for the next two years she endured rigorous training and harsh living conditions, ultimately participating in top-secret missions with the secret service.
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The military's ultimate mission is to protect and defend the US, and, to do so, it needs to use the most advanced technology when dealing with potential threats from other nations. Gaining that position of strength requires the development, utilization, and maintenance of the needed technologies which results in a multitude of STEM careers in all military forces"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In all branches of the military, certain services are required to keep operations running. Service careers are those careers in which one does make a product, but instead provides a needed service to others. Without such services and those who provide them, the military could not operate"--
14) The liberators
Author
Series
World War II (Chris Lynch) volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Nick Nardini enlists in the Marine Corps' new paratrooper combat unit at the start of World War II, he has to talk his best friend, Zachary Klecko, into joining him in what he sees as an adventure--but from boot camp on it is clear that Zach is much more serious about the war than Nick is, at least until they are assigned to one of the POW recovery teams on the Japanese mainland.
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The US military mission is to protect the United States and its allies from attacks by adversaries and enemies around the world. Today, wide ranging attacks include cyberattacks on computer systems, increasing nuclear expansion by adversaries, and terrorist attacks on civilian people. To address these threats, the military has developed programs that specifically are devoted to intelligence, which is the collecting and analyzing of information about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles four professional athletes who put aside their sports aspirations to risk their lives and serve in the U.S. armed forces, including Ted Williams, Rocky Blier, Carlos May, and Pat Tillman.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"The young adult adaptation of the epic memoir of an Alaskan pararescue jumper, Special Forces Operator, and decorated war hero. "That Others May Live" is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska's 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or saving wounded Rangers and SEALS in blazing firefights at war, the PJs are...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army, and stage an uprising. The name of the camp -- Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruelest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying...
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