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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...
6) Memorial Day
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 7
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Fearless counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp is called upon to fight against the world's most deadly terrorists in this harrowing political thriller by New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn. It's just seven days before Memorial Day, and the nation's capital is buzzing with last-minute preparations for the unveiling of the magnificent new memorial honoring the men and women who fought in World War II. Despite the hopeful energy of the city,...
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Doctor Jonathan Ransom returns in Christopher Reich's sequel to Rules of Deception. Still on the hunt for his wife, who he recently discovered was a international spy, Ransom gets wrapped up in a scandal involving a secret American cargo plane that crashed on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. To stay alive, Ransom must continue to use his unmatchable wits.
10) The kite runner
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Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
vii, 324 pages ; 24 cm
Description
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of...
11) Hawk
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Series
Quiet professionals volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Raptor's communications expert, Staff Sergeant Brian "Hawk" Bledsoe, is struggling with his inner demons, leaving him on the verge of an "other than honorable" discharge. Plagued with corrupted intel, Raptor team continues to track down the terrorist playing chess with their lives. Afghan pilot Fekiria Haidary is devastated when a systems glitch on her aircraft forces a weapons launch on a safe target. And when the deadly bombing separates Hawk from...
12) Extra credit
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
13) Raptor 6
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Series
Quiet professionals volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm
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Captain Dean Watters keeps his mission and his team in the forefront of his laser-like focus. So when these two things are threatened by hackers, Dean's Special Forces training kicks into high gear. Failing to stop the hackers from stealing national security secrets from the military's secure computers and networks isn't an option. Zahrah Zarrick is a missionary teacher to Afghan children in Mazar-e Sharif. And a target. When Zahrah is captured because...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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1014 pages ; 21 cm.
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A Breed Apart Trilogy delivers three action-packed stories starring military war dogs and their human handlers. A wounded ex-Green Beret and his war dog, Trinity, are on their most dangerous mission ever to rescue a military intelligence officer. A veteran teams with a traumatized combat tracking dog, Talon, to find her brother & a missing soldier. A fiery handler and her tough bullmastiff, Beowulf, are on a mission like no other to detect WMDs in...
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Set in Afghanistan, this emotionally engaging first novel uses alternating chapters to weave together the story of nine-year-old Rahima and her sisters with that of their great-great-grandmother Shekiba. Both Rahima and Shekiba share the experience of participating in bacha posh, in which young girls are dressed as and treated as boys until puberty. And like Shekiba, Rahima and her two older sisters endure the difficult and often horrific experience...
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