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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A captivating young adult edition of the award-winning #1 New York Times best-seller documents the inspirational true story of how Louis Zamperini, a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic athlete and World War II pilot, crashed into the ocean and survived for weeks on a life raft only to become a prisoner of war. Includes more than 100 photographs and an exclusive interview with Louis Zamperini."
Author
Language
English
Description
On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save their submarine—and themselves—after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the surface, only to be captured by the Japanese.
No Ordinary Joes tells the harrowing story of four of the Grenadier’s crew: Bob Palmer of Medford, Oregon; Chuck...
No Ordinary Joes tells the harrowing story of four of the Grenadier’s crew: Bob Palmer of Medford, Oregon; Chuck...
6) King Rat
Author
Series
Asian saga volume 4
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
"Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within its barbed wire walls. Officers and enlisted men, all prisoners together, yet the old hierarchies and rivalries survive. An American corporal, known as the King, has used his personality and wile to facilitate trading with guards and locals to get needed food, supplies, even information into the camp. The imprisoned upper-class officers have never had to do things...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As a teenager, Hanny Londt-Shultz, together with her family, faced a grinding daily routine in a Japanese internment camp in Sumatra during WWII. But through the recognition of small miracles, the members of the Londt-Shultz family, though damaged, endure, and in spite of life-threatening challenges become saviors among their peers and courageous examples to their captors.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was...
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Champion. Survivor. Hero. Legend. Completed just two days before Louis Zamperini's death at age 97, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In shares a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and humor from one of America's most inspiring lives. Zamperini's story has touched millions through Laura Hillenbrand's biography Unbroken, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. Now, in his own words, Louis Zamperini reveals, with warmth and great charm, the...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Primera edici?n.
Language
Español
Description
En una tarde de mayo en 1943, un bombardero Fuerzas A?reas del Ej?rcito se estrell? en el Oc?ano Pac?fico y desapareci?, dejando s?lo una lluvia de escombros y una mancha de aceite, gasolina, y la sangre. A continuaci?n, en la superficie del oc?ano, un rostro apareci? - Lt. Louis Zamperini. Capturado por los japoneses y conducido a los l?mites de la resistencia, Zamperini responder?a desesperaci?n con el ingenio; sufrimiento con esperanza, determinaci?n,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada for the ravages of war overseas. On the other side of the country, Mitsue Sakamoto and her family felt their pleasant life in Vancouver starting to fade away after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ralph found himself one of the many Canadians captured by the Japanese in December 1941. He would live out his war in a prison...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A World War II novel about a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies"--
"Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb...
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