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2) Kent State
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
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Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
While struggling with the changes he faces during his senior year in a small Indiana town, Lucas gains insight through a unique friendship with a former Vietnam war protester.
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
As the summer of 1969 turns to fall in their New Jersey town, twelve-year-old Brody plays football in his first year at junior high while his older brother's protest of the war in Vietnam causes tension with their father.
Publisher
Distributed by MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1969, young soldier Dalton Joiner finds out that his girlfriend Jane back home has dumped him and vows to sneak out of Vietnam during his one-week leave to win her back. His best friend Mickey Wright will do anything to help his buddy out, as long as there might be a few girls along the way. In just seven days they must get to the States, change Jane's mind and make it back to the war without getting caught. But when they arrive...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When serious worrier Brady Callahan meets vivacious Sally Cooper, daughter of a wealthy Minnesota family, they develop a close friendship that helps them both grow and survive during the turbulent Vietnam War era.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jude is a young dockworker from Liverpool who travels to find his estranged father in America. He is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Lucy is a rich and sheltered American girl who Jude falls in love with. Lucy joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic...
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