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1) Fourth wing
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to 'fragile'...
2) Tigerland
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Just released from the base stockade, recruit Roland Bozz joins a platoon of young soldiers preparing to ship out to Vietnam. His independence and outright defiance draw fire from his own men as well as commanding officers. But when the platoon is sent to Tigerland, a hellish training ground, Bozz's leadership and loyalty bring his men together, triggering extraordinary consequences.
3) Tigerland
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
1971. A nation stands divided over the escalating war in Vietnam. At Fort Polk, Louisiana, the specter of combat hangs over the men of A-Company, Second Platoon, as they enter the final stage of infantry training. They will be sent to the war. But each man deals with this prospect in his own way. One man's defiance, however, galvanizes every member of the platoon. Soon after Roland Bozz (newcomer Colin Farrell) joins A-Company, the lines of opinion...
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Series
Kopp sisters novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart's clever and original Kopp sisters series, the sisters get some military discipline drilled into them--whether they're ready or not--as the U.S. prepares to enter World War I"--
Spring, 1917. American women have done something remarkable: they've banded together to create military-style training camps for women who want to serve. These so-called National Service Schools prove irresistible to the Kopp sisters,...
Author
Series
Confederation novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Jumping at the chance to go to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet, to work with Major Svensson, Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds herself caught in a desperate fight for survival when someone begins attacking the training scenarios.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The campaign in the Frozen Continent has failed. War returns to Norghana, and with it death and destruction. King Uthar has been defeated in the Frozen Continent. Wounded, he retreats to Norghania to regroup his forces and shield himself behind the walls of the capital. Lasgol and his friends will try to pass the fourth and final year of instruction and graduate as Rangers on their own merits. To do this they will have to take part in deeply dangerous...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Who will reap the rewards of war? Hawaii, 1948: Troubled WWII hero turned deserter Wendell Lett desperately seeks a cure to his severe combat trauma, and The Preserve seems to be his salvation. Run by Lansdale, a mysterious intelligence officer, and Lett's ambitious wartime XO Charlie Selfer, the secretive training camp promises relief from the terrors in his mind. Together with Kanani Alana, a tough-minded Hawaiian also looking for a new start at...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Can a handful of Rangers decide the fate of a kingdom? Lasgol and his companions are immersed in their missions as Specialist Rangers. The situations and problems they will face are much greater than they imagined. The civil war in Norghana intensifies. King Thoran, with the support of the eastern nobles and an army of mercenaries paid with the gold of the crown, wants to put an end to the rebellion. He wants to end the King of the West and his League...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The Panthers continue to train and educate themselves to become Superior Specialists. The new training system will take them to unsuspected extremes. Will they be able to finish the training? Will they suffer a serious setback? Camu has grown and evolved. Nobody knows the power the creature has and what he can get to do with it."--Page [4]
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The Snow Panthers are summoned to carry out a risky and complicated mission to obtain an object of power which will help destroy the evil which is on its way across the northern mountains to the capital. This is not the only danger our friends will have to face, since the Dark Rangers and the Zangrians continue to pose an ever-present threat, both to the realm and the Panthers.
Author
Series
Akiko novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fifth-grader Akiko renews her acquaintance with her friends from the planet Smoo when they whisk her away to the Zarga Baffa Training Camp, where she must deal with mud, misery, and a training master who is out to get her.
Author
Series
Path of the ranger volume 13
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
An arcane call draws the Panthers into a new mystery. One of great danger and importance. The Panthers resume their duties as Rangers upon leaving the Refuge. They will have to undertake a mission as complicated as it is risky. Will they manage to survive the mission? Will they solve the mystery?