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1) Ground Zero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
2) Torn
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Only eighteen when she is sent to Afghanistan, British army medic Elinor Nielson is continually at odds with her hardnosed bunkmate, Heidi Larson, but connects with a mysterious Afghan girl and local children, as well as an American lieutenant
3) Shadow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Teenager Aman and his mother lose their loyal spaniel Shadow while escaping Afghanistan to flee to England, and they must depend on a friend and his grandfather to enable Shadow's return.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
5) Semper fido
Author
Series
Dog tags volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Gus Dempsey is a newly trained dog handler in the United States Marine Corps, and when he is deployed to Afghanistan he is paired with Loki, a bomb-sniffing black Labrador with a mischievous streak.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined"--
7) Hazard
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma...
8) The mist
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
At Forward Operating Base Loman, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist Dan West is one of the soldiers who regularly risks his life finding and disarming IEDs, with the help of a detector dog named Mouser--but things can go wrong, and an Afghan boy standing on a bomb's pressure plate during an attack is an unexpected danger.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up.
10) Go slow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When she was young Rose Campbell's father constantly told her to "take things slow," advice she takes to heart as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist in Afghanistan--because when detecting IEDs seems to become too routine, sometimes the enemy is just hoping she and her partner Eli will lose their focus.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When his helicopter crashes in Kunar Province in Afghanistan, Lieutenant Jamal Jenkins is cut off from the forward base where the rest of his pararescue team is under fire--injured and captured by the Taliban Jenkins struggles to survive while the rest of his team sets out to find and rescue him.