Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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[2015], Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC MOR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As a young boy, Michael is told not to stare at his grandfather, disfigured in World War II. When Michael spends summers with him in the Scilly Isles, he gets to know the man behind the scars.
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[2015]., Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As a young boy, Michael is told not to stare at his grandfather, disfigured in World War II. When Michael spends summers with him in the Scilly Isles, he gets to know the man behind the scars.
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2015., Adolescent, Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: Teen Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a "normal" life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F CUR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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By Lupica, Mike[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Philomel Books Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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c2009., Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC PENNYPACKER Edition: First edition. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: "After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Kathy Dawson Books Call No: HISTORICAL F SHE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: NL HISTORICAL F BRU Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2013., Juvenile, Pfun-omenal Stories Call No: 394.2 PFUNDSTEIN Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A boy asks his father for help after his teacher asks each of her pupils to name a veteran whom he or she knows. The boy soon discovers that many of the familiar people who work in his neighborhood are heroes who have served in the country's military.
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c1990., Juvenile, Clarion Books Call No: E BUN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A Boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Fic Korman Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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. Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.
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2020., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F KOR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 wants Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.
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Ã2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: FIC Young adult KORMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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 game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts"--Provided by publisher.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL FIC KOR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: JUV016150 Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "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"--Provided by publisher.
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC Call No: Fic Wolk Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: 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.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: Blue Fiction WOLK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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"--