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1) Ender's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Once again, the Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin is brilliant, ruthless, and cunning, a tactical and strategic master, and a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions?...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the life of Ender Wiggin's comrade Bean, from his escape from the mean streets of Rotterdam, to his student days at the Battle School, and to his role as Ender's right hand ally, strategist, and friend in the epic struggle to save Earth from alien invaders
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reveals the world of Peter Pan through the eyes of Nick, a fatherless teen whose dreams of wonderland are replaced by the gritty reality of life and death, as Peter's recruits are forced into a lethal battle where the line between good and evil is blurred
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The sequel to the international best-selling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats."--
"Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father's native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted. One day, in the middle of an important business meeting,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence." -Entertainment Weekly (A)
The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country
As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of...
7) Blood scion
Author
Series
Blood scion volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at will; she is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. But under the brutal rule of the Lucis, her identity means her death. Her mother knew as much. She disappeared trying to hide Sloane's truth. Sloane, too, has hidden her abilities, but on her fifteenth birthday, she is conscripted into the Lucis army. Once taken, Sloane must not only conceal her power but overcome the bloody challenges...
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of child soldiers, Mikazuki Augus, Orga Itsuka, and several others, are sent to protect a young aristocrat seeking to liberate a Martian city from Earth's rule. When an outside force threatens those involved, Mikazuki must head into battle using a war-era relic, the Gundam Barbatos.
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of child soldiers, Mikazuki Augus, Orga Itsuka, and several others, are sent to protect a young aristocrat seeking to liberate a Martian city from Earth's rule. When an outside force threatens those involved, Mikazuki must head into battle using a war-era relic, the Gundam Barbatos.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sam Childers is a drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing spiritual transformation and makes a life-changing decision to travel to war-torn East Africa. After witnessing unspeakable horrors faced by innocent children, he vows to save them at any cost, including his own safety. Childers begins waging a relentless battle against the territory's renegade militia, leading harrowing missions behind enemy lines to rescue kidnapped orphans and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Collection of three novellas plus the original "Enders Game," the journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. "The Polish Boy" begins in the wake between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender, they believe they may have found their man, or boy. In "Teacher's Pest," a brilliant but insufferably arrogant...
14) Soldier boy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based.
Author
Series
Beholder volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After enduring deception at the hands of one prince, Selah never imagined she'd find love with Torden of Norge. Or that she'd be banished from his court as a traitor and a spy, unsure when or if they'll see each other again. That heartbreak pales in comparison to her crew's--her friends'--betrayal. The Beholder's true mission was a secret they didn't trust Selah to keep: transporting weapons to rebels fighting against the Imperiya Yotne's brutal...
17) To kill a shadow
Author
Publisher
Entagled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It's only when he sees her--a young woman with wild, amber eyes who's as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves--that he feels the warmth of life in his blood. The other Knights may fear their lethal commander, with his hard, merciless...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1091
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties--a child soldier--in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation unfolds in an unnamed, civil-war-torn West African country, where the young Agu (Abraham Attah), in a haunting debut performance) witnesses carnage in his village before falling captive to a band of rebel soldiers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Michel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his schoolyard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a soldier for a brutal rebel militia. Against the odds, Michel managed to escape and find his way back to his family, but he was never the same again. After immigrating to Canada, Michel was encouraged by a teacher to share what happened to him in order to raise awareness about child soldiers around the...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The final battle for the island is here: Hana and Kenichi finally return to the island seeking refuge with their new travel companions, but are denied entry by Elder Jin and the Islanders who fear the newly mutated byonin. Caught between the Island's defenses, the Shogun's oncoming forces, and the deadly new byonin, Hana and Kenichi must rally their own troops and make one final stand to protect the homeland that has abandoned them, in order to preserve...
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