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Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, officially bringing the United States into World War II. A new generation of pilots were recruited to fly bombing missions for the United States, and from that group, volunteers were requested for a dangerous secret assignment. For the first time in American history, Army bombers would be launched from an aircraft carrier.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great anti-war books. An American classic and one of the world's seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated...
7) Dogs of war
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs. Based on true stories.
Series
Bombshells volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"As Word War II rages across Europe, the Allied forces issue a call to arms for the greatest heroines the world has ever known - KATE KANE, the all-American Batwoman; DIANA OF THEMYSCIRA, warrior Princess of the Amazons; KARA STARIKOV and KORTNI DUGINOVNA, defenders of Mother Russia; and MERA, royal daughter of the legendary Atlantis! With aid from their allies at home and abroad, these mighty women will turn the tide of war and defend those inviolable...
10) Irmina
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political situation in Hitler's Germany, is forced to return home. As war approaches and her contact with Howard is broken, it becomes clear to Irmina...
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A hero for the ages in a trio of war-torn tales! In "Operation: Zero Point," a squadron of anti-gravity Nazi aircraft rises from behind enemy lines! In "Prisoners of Duty," Steve Rogers is taken captive along with fellow infantrymen inside the forbidding walls of a Nazi-held castle. And in "America First!," the Commie-busting Cap of the 1950s uncovers a fifth-columnist plot that has its origins in the most unsuspecting of places! It's Cap action set...
Series
Bombshells volume 4
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Technology and terror form an unholy alliance in a world at war and only the heroines known as the Bombshells can shut it down. As World War II rages around them, Batwoman, Catwoman and Renee Montoya take a journey to Africa to get help from an old ally: Vixen, Queen of Zambesi and co-founder of the Bombshells. But they're not alone. The lethal Cheetah has her claws out and she's digging them directly into a forbidden site: the dwelling place of...
Series
Bombshells volume 3
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"EUROPE, 1941. War is raging across the continent. The forces of darkness are on the march and the magic powers of heroes like Zatanna, Mera and Constantine have been stripped away. And in the underground cabarets of Berlin, the Joker s Daughter rules with an iron fist. On the home front, the Batgirls an army of freedom fighters modeled after their favorite Bombshell battle against Gotham City s most infamous criminals with the help of Maggie Sawyer...
Series
Bombshells volume 5
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary heroines known as the Bombshells are fighting on all fronts in an increasingly brutal war. Will the return of two long-lost allies and a squad of unlikely teammates be enough to secure victory? One of those ready to rejoin the fight is Supergirl but Lex Luthor and Hugo Strange have plans of their own for the Maid of Might. When Supergirl is pitted against her clone, will they find there s room for more than one Kryptonian on this...
18) War bears
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Oursonette, a fictional Nazi-fighting superheroine, is created by Al Zurakowski who dreams of making it big in the world of comics publishing. A story that follows the early days of comics in Toronto, a war that greatly strains Al personally and professionally, and how the rise of post-war American comics puts an end to his dreams."-- cover page 4.
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide Inc., a subsidary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Seven adventures that forged the sentinel of liberty! From skinny Steve Rogers to the shield-slinger leading battalions of men into battle, Captain America will be forced to choose between his county and his best friend, and he'll experience one of his darkest days when a World War II mission goes wrong. He'll take on Soviet Russia, and challenge: escaping a prisoner-of-war camp as plain old Steve Rogers! Plus: Wintess the star-spangled super-soldier's...
Author
Publisher
Dead Reckoning
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As the German Army smashes deep into Soviet Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units, they will risk fiery death flying obsolete biplanes against the invader--but unlike the rest, these pilots and navigators are women. In the lethal skies above the Eastern front, they will become a legend--known to friend and foe alike as the Night Witches. With...
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