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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit"--
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to move from Seattle to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future...
3) The orchard
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Language
English
Description
"'She realized there was peace right here in the midst of this heavenly sort of place, despite the unpredictable storm churning around her family.' For generations, Ellie Hostetler's family has tended their Lancaster County orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue. Yet when Evan's draft number is called up in the lottery for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status, despite...
4) Hocus pocus
Author
Language
English
Description
A small, exclusive college in upstate New York is nestled along the frozen shores of Lake Mohiga ... and directly across from a maximum-security prison. The two institutions manage to coexist peacefully, until 10,000 prisoners break out and head directly for the college. "Sharp-toothed satire ... absurd humor".--San Francisco Chronicle.
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories, several on group behavior. The story, Low Men in Yellow Coats, deals with the way group behavior can affect people for the worse, the title story is on a college woman who saves a fellow student from such behavior, while in Blind Willie a man atones for group behavior in the Vietnam War.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The multigenerational tale of the Trà̂n family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trà̂n Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not just...
Publisher
Remember My Service Productions, a division of StoryRock, Inc
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
"Half a century has passed since the Vietnam War, and 50 years of novels of novels, films, and music have dramatized and mythologized the controversial conflict. But this book approaches the war in a uniquely personal way, focusing on individual stories of the men and women from every state and Service who fulfilled their duty during the Vietnam War. Their day-to-day experiences are heartbreaking, raw, detailed--and sometimes even humorous. More than...
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
"Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict are recorded as missing or having been killed. This book is a memorial to those men and women, and in many cases it includes the last photographs they took."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
This work depicts the heroic young men of Alpha Company as they carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left...
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Language
English
Description
"After Annie Jacobson's older brother is deployed to Vietnam during the war, tragedy at home brings their estranged father home without welcome. As tensions heighten, Annie and her family must find a way to move forward as they try to hold both hope and grief in the same hand"--
Michigan, 1967. When Annie Jacobson's brother Mike enlists as a medic in the Army in 1967, he hands her a piece of paper with the address of Frank, their long-estranged father,...
13) The women
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Language
English
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Description
"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
14) Vietnam war
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Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the history of the Vietnam War and U.S. involvement.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. And in this stirring chronicle, Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Philip Caputo writes about our country's most controversial war -- the Vietnam War -- for young readers. From the first stirrings of unrest in Vietnam under French colonial rule, to American intervention, to the battle at Hamburger Hill, to the Tet Offensive, to...
17) Vietnam War
Author
Series
Publisher
Brown Bear Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Describes the conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s, including descriptions of the events, key actions for each battle, along with casualty figures.
18) Vietnam War
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The story of the war in Vietnam, told in text and pictures. Vietnam War complements the new look of the Eyewitness series by touring the major battles of the Vietnam conflict. Traces the history of the unpopular war that killed over 58,000 Americans, discussing the causes and effects, leaders, major battles, guerrilla warfare, aerial bombing, weaponry, peace negotiations, and lessons learned.
19) Taxi dancer
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A novel based on an elite corps of jet pilots who flew controversial and highly dangerous bombing raids over North Vietnam. Captain Barney South has flown ninety hazardous missions. He has already used up more than his fair share of luck. With ten more missions to go, he doesn't need the brand of flak he's been getting from the brass, who have more use for dead heroes than live troublemakers. And now they're offering him a long shot the most important...
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