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Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI

10 best books like Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI (Ryan Smithson): Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting, The War to End All Wars: World War I, Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis, Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam, Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team, Cleopatra Rules!: The Amazing Life of the Original Teen Queen, Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel, Why I Fight, The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary

Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
AuthorJim Murphy
ISBN0545130492
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War I.On July 29th 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its...
The War to End All Wars: World War I
AuthorRussell Freedman
ISBN0547026862
Nonfiction master Russell Freedman illuminates for young readers the complex and rarely discussed subject of World War I. The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of modern weaponry, and top-level military decisions that resulted in thousands upon thousands...
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
AuthorKen Mochizuki
ISBN1584301570
In 1940, five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the eldest son of the Japanese consul to Lithuania, saw from the consulate window hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland. They had come to Hiroki's father with a desperate request: Could consul Sugihara write visas for them to escape the Nazi threat?

The...
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
AuthorMatt de la Pena
ISBN0803731671
On the eve of World War II, African American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling in a bout that had more at stake than just the world heavyweight title; for much of America their fight came to represent America's war with Germany. This elegant and powerful picture book biography centers around...
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0142423750
In March 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops into Vietnam. 57,939 American soldiers would be killed and seventeen years would pass before this controversial chapter of American history concluded with the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982.

The history of this...
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
AuthorSteve Sheinkin
ISBN1596439548
Jim Thorpe: super athlete, Olympic gold medalist, Native American.

Pop Warner: indomitable coach, football mastermind, Ivy League grad.

Before these men became legends, they met in 1907 at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, where they forged one of the winningest teams...
Cleopatra Rules!: The Amazing Life of the Original Teen Queen
AuthorVicky Alvear Shecter
ISBN1590787188
Good. Evil. Dangerous. Glamorous. Will the real Cleopatra please stand up? Almost everything we know about the last queen of Egypt came from her enemies—the Romans. Now it's time to meet the "real" Cleopatra, a ruler more complex, brilliant, and powerful than we ever knew. Cleopatra didn't just...
Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel
AuthorC.M. Butzer
ISBN0061561754
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is familiar to all Americans. But never has his most famous speech--his 271 indelible words--been presented in such a visual and accessible format. Graphic artist and Civil War aficionado C. M. Butzer deftly uses a detailed, comic-book style to depict the Battle...
Why I Fight
AuthorJ. Adams Oaks
ISBN1416911774
Wyatt Reaves takes the seat next to you, bloodied and soaking wet, and he is a big-fisted beast. Tell him to stretch out like an X across asphalt and you've got a parking space. But Wyatt's been taking it lying down for too long, and he is NOT happy.

Since he turned twelve and a half, he's been living...
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0375836187
The award-winning author of Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor has created an enthralling joint biography of our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, and his complex wife—a scrapbook history that uses photographs, letters, engravings, and even cartoons, along with a fascinating text,...
War Is...: Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN0763636258
In a provocative anthology, two editors with opposing viewpoints present an unflinching collection of works reflecting on the nature of war.

Marc Aronson thinks war is inevitable. Patty Campbell thinks war is cruel, deceptive, and wrong. But both agree on one thing: that teens need to hear...
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
AuthorSusan Kuklin
ISBN0805079505
No Choirboy takes readers inside America's prisons, and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices—raw and uncensored—they talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also...
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
AuthorVaunda Micheaux Nelson
ISBN0822567644
Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life. Outlaws feared him.

As a deputy U.S. Marshal and former slave who escaped to freedom in the Indian Territories, Bass was cunning and fearless. When a lawbreaker heard...
Mare's War
AuthorTanita S. Davis
ISBN0375857141
Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past. Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn't your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up...
Rikers High
AuthorPaul Volponi
Martin was sitting on the front stoop of his apartment building minding his own business when he was arrested for something he didn't even mean to do. Five months later, he's still locked up on Rikers Island, in a New York City jail. Just when it seems things couldn't get much worse, Martin is caught between...
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
AuthorKaren Blumenthal
ISBN0689859570
Can girls play softball? Can girls be school crossing guards? Can girls play basketball or ice hockey or soccer? Can girls become lawyers or doctors or engineers?
Of course they can...
today. But just a few decades ago, opportunities for girls were far more limited, not because they weren't...
The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage
AuthorEric Greitens
ISBN0547868529
In this adaptation of his best-selling book, The Heart and the Fist, Eric speaks directly to teen readers, interweaving memoir and intimate second-person narratives that ask the reader to put themselves in the shoes of himself and others. Readers will share in Eric’s evolution from average kid...
Shaping the World from the Shadows: The (Open) Secret History of Delta Force, Post-9/11
AuthorChris Martin
While the raid that killed Osama bin Laden cemented SEAL Team Six as the American military's reluctant media darling, a broader look at the Global War on Terror suggests that it's been the Army's Delta Force that has quietly spearheaded the most ambitious special operations campaign in modern history.

Formerly...
No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
AuthorMichael Bar-Zohar
ISBN0062379003
A riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal's account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli Special forcesMossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service...
Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq
AuthorThura al-Windawi
ISBN0670058866
Nineteen-year-old Thura al-Windawi kept a diary during the conflict in Iraq, saying that it was her way of “controlling the chaos.” The diary, which documents the days leading up to the bombings, the war itself, and the lawless aftermath, puts a personal face on life in Baghdad. As Thura describes...
Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II
AuthorJay A. Stout
ISBN0425274098
During the air battles that destroyed Nazi Germany’s ability to wage war, one bomb group was especially distinguished.

The Hell’s Angels.

At the outbreak of World War II, the United States was in no way prepared to wage war. Although the U.S declared war against Germany in December...
Tony Hawk: Professional Skateboarder
AuthorTony Hawk
ISBN0060096896
In this young adult autobiography, Tony Hawk shares the stories from his life that have helped him become a skateboarding hero.

Hawk speaks of being a super-competitive ′demon′ child who found peace while on a skateboard. Classmates teased him because of his interest in an ′uncool′...
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops
AuthorDamien Lewis
When France fell to the Nazis in the winter of 1939, Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that Britain would resist the advance of the German army--alone if necessary. To help defeat the seemingly unstoppable German war machine, Churchill called for the swift and secret development of a very...
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
AuthorCaren Stelson
ISBN1467789038
This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945, and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath. Having conducted extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson chronicles Sachiko’s...
Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods
AuthorJohn McPherson
ISBN1569756503
EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT SURVIVING IN THE WILD

“During my first years of learning survival I took a course in survival and primitive earth skills taught by John and Geri McPherson. I was excited by their unbelievable passion and their intrinsic understanding of survival. Their...
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