Great escapes (HarperCollins)
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Nazi prison camp escape , Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 1
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Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 2
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Winter 1838: Kentucky. Determined to save her toddler son from being sold as a slave, the woman who became known as Eliza Harris trekked through the forest, in the dark of night with wild animals on her heels. Her goal: cross the Ohio River, the boundary between the North and the South, between slavery and freedom. Although the journey would be perilous, Eliza looked out at the treacherous frozen waters and quickly decided she couldn't let fear stop...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Civil War, 1863. Virginia. Union soldiers Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A. G. Hamilton were captured by the Confederate Army and taken to Libby Prison, one of the most horrific prisons ever run--infamous for its overcrowded, vermin-infested conditions. But neither fear, nor darkness, nor squealing rats could keep Rose and Hamilton from freedom. They and other POWs would fight against the odds to attempt the largest prison escape in American history....
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Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"In December 1920, three US Navy officials boarded a hot air balloon for a routine training flight, but end up stranded in the Canadian wilderness"--
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
London, 1716. Lord William Nithsdale has been found guilty of treason after fighting alongside the other rebels against the British crown. For his crime, he is sent to the infamous Tower of London, where he awaits his punishment: the executioner's blade. Upon learning of the Lord's death sentence, his wife, Lady Winifred Maxwell, sets out to free him from the "Bloody Tower." She plots and plans to pull off a daring and dangerous breakout. If her idea...
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Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"June 1942, Libya. In the hot desert military camp at Bir Hakeim, Free French Officer Susan Travers was trapped. The Germans had her troops surrounded. With their forces outnumbered and ammo running low, French general Marie-Pierre Koenig gave a shocking order. They were going to break out in the middle of the night--crossing through dangerous minefields and enemy territory--to reach their British allies. And Susan, one of just a few women at the...