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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
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Twenty-five years after being convicted of the murder of a little girl, a black soldier discovers he was set up: someone drugged him to kill. When Rufus Harms appeals, the real killers come after him, so he breaks out of jail to help a lawyer bring them to justice. The book contains mature language situations.
Pub. Date
2002
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General Irwin is a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to a maximum security military prison, The Castle. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter, who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an action that the...
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Series
Campaigns and commanders volume 38
Pub. Date
[2013]
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"Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and...
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Pub. Date
p2012
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After having her cover blown and risking everything to stop a nuclear Armageddon, Chandler figured she might have been shown some appreciation. Instead, the organization that trained her locks up Chandler's sister on treason charges, intent on extracting every last scrap of information out of her broken body and mind. Despite the impossible odds, Chandler launches a rescue mission, breaking into an ultra-secret military prison on U.S. soil that no...
Pub. Date
[2019]
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American History X: Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother Danny from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family.
The Green Mile: African American John Coffey is a gentle giant of a man, who...
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