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1) Wolf Hollow
Author
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
3) War stories
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...
4) No slam dunk
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Annapolis, Maryland, seventh-grader Wes is a good teammate but this basketball season has been challenging because of his ball hog teammate Dinero, who is determined to steal the spotlight, and Wes's army veteran father who is suffering from PTSD.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kaleb has always looked up to his older stepbrother, Luke, in snowboarding and everything else, so when Luke is wounded in Afghanistan Kaleb is devastated--and to honor his brother he is set on competing on the difficult slopestyle course.
8) Hollow chest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his brother Theo returns home from World War II cold and distant, Charlie soon discovers that Theo's heart has been consumed by a war wolf, which lives off of grief, and must get Theo's heart back before it's too late.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Cody and his father, an undercover agent, are nearly killed, Cody moves in with his aunt in Connecticut, where he is helped with his adjustment to the trials of attending public school for the first time and investigating a threat in nearby woods by a wounded Iraq War veteran.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the development of the Korean War Veterans Memorial and also chronicles the Korean War and describes the conditions that confronted the troops there.
14) A dog like Daisy
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Daisy has only ten weeks to prove her usefulness or else be sent back to the pound. Yet if she goes back, who will protect Colonel Victor from his PTSD attacks? Or save the littler human, Micah, from those infernal ear muzzles he calls earphones? What if no one ever adopts her again? Determined to become the elite protector the colonel needs, Daisy vows to ace the service dog test. She'll accept the ridiculous leash and learn to sit, heel, shake,...
15) Two roads
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian. --
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In his old age, Grandpa has become confused. He believes he is back in World War II, when he was an RAF Spitfire pilot. Only one person can understand him: his grandson, Jack. When Grandpa is sent to Twilight Towers -- an old folk's home run by the sinister Matron Swine -- it's up to Jack and Grandpa to plot a daring escape. Little do they know the wicked matron is on to them...
Author
Series
A Buxton Canada novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
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