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1) The soldier
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I am an American soldier. Leyla is a young Iraqi. We are so different. Can she help me?
Leyla’s village is broken, and it is all because of the war. She can’t go to school, her best friend has been forced to move away, and American soldiers occupy her small village. Now, Leyla has to spend all day at the sewing shop with her mother and the other women of the village. But when she meets an American soldier who happens to be a women, Leyla’s...
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Front lines (Michael Grant) volume 3
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1944. After their front-line battles in North Africa and Sicily, women soldiers Frangi, Rainy, and Rio join thousands of Allies in their deadliest battle yet as they descend into the freezing water and onto the sands of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, D-Day.
3) Front lines
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1942. World War II. The most terrible war in human history. Millions are dead; millions more are still to die. The Nazis rampage across Europe and eye far-off America. The green, untested American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled -- the armed forces of Nazi Germany. But something has changed. A court decision makes females subject to the draft and eligible for service. So in this World War II, women and girls fight,...
4) Go slow
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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.
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Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive. In an utterly one-of-a-kind blend of fiction and history, a master storyteller explores the mystery and life of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body.
Estrild is not like the other girls in her village, she wants to be a warrior. Varick, the orphan boy who helps her...
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"The Courage to Dream tells the story of Assata, a young Wakandan who hopes to become one of the Dora Milaje, the warriors who protect Wakanda. But because of Assata's disability, she lets go of her dream. Assata's light shows through all the same, introducing her to surprising friends: the princess Shuri, the warrior Okoye, and the powerful M'Baku. But only Assata can give herself what she's missing: the courage to dream."--
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Valiant volume 2
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When Fallon and her fellow gladiatrices are thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, the only thing that might save them is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors.
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The legend of Mulan and her bravery is captured in this book of beautiful ink paintings. There was once an extraordinary girl who was as beautiful as she was brave. She knew how to read and write and sew. She loved to ride horses and shoot her bow and arrows. But it was the love for her family and her father that made her into a great soldier. Presented in English and simplified Chinese characters.
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