18 books like Echoes of war
Shattered
A journey that begins with adventure soon plunges into the depths of one of Africa's darkest moments. The Shattered Pearl is the gripping memoir of Sara L. Armstrong, an ordinary woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Born in Chicago, Sara joined the Peace Corps in 1966, driven by a hunger for exploration and service. Her travels led her to Uganda, where love and destiny…
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Blaue Junge
When his parents die in a war, a boy from another planet rejects any form of kindness, seeks companionship from weapons, and searches for a friend who will never die.
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The Lantern Bearers
Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roman-British leader Ambrosius to fight against the Saxon hordes.
Historical fiction.
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Johnny and the Bomb
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Maxwell acquires the neighborhood homeless woman's shopping cart when she is injured and discovers that its contents have the ability to send him back in time from 1996 to 1941 England.
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Vampire & Werewolf Stories
A collection of stories about vampires and werewolves, including Jane Yolen's "Mama Gone," Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," and an excerpt from Bram Stoker's "Dracula."
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Oorlog zonder vrienden
In a small Dutch town during World War II, fourteen-year-old Arnold, a member of the Hitler Youth, feels increasingly isolated and trapped between his father's fervent support of the Nazi party and his classmates' hostile opposition to all the Nazis stand for.
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The Machine Gunners
After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it.
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Only You Can Save Mankind
Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.
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Bang, bang, you're dead
A group of children find that while play war can be fun, real war is no fun at all.
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Amina's blanket
After helping to knit and sew together the squares of a blanket to be sent to a country at war, Josie dreams of what life is like for the girl who will receive the blanket as a gift from Josie's class.
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Prisoners of war
Newly arrived on the Western front and assigned as a medic, Rivera finds himself in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge, cut off behind enemy lines--and his only companion is a Nazi trained Doberman pinscher.
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A history of glitter and blood
Sixteen-year-old Beckan and her friends are the only fairies brave enough to stay in Ferrum when war breaks out. Now there is tension between the immortal fairies, the subterranean gnomes, and the mysterious tightropers who arrived to liberate the fairies. But when Beckan's clan is forced to venture into the gnome underworld to survive, they find themselves tentatively forming unlikely…
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Jenius
Eight-year-old Judy tries to convince her parents and classmates that her brilliant guinea pig can do all the tricks which she says it can.
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The Lost Stories
Unconfirmed accounts of a group of Araluen warriors - tales of adventure, battle, and triumph over evil -- have spread for centuries throughout the known world. Most notable is a clan shrouded in mystery, phantom warriors known as the Rangers.
Two names pass the lips of every storyteller: Halt, and his apprentice, Will. They and their comrades in arms are said to have traveled throughout the…
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Just So Stories
Seven tales that explain special things about animals, such as how the whale got his tiny throat, the camel his hump and the leopard his spots.
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The war in Georgia
Living in Georgia during World War II, thirteen-year-old Shanta sometimes feels that her family and neighborhood are more hopeless battlefields that those in foreign lands.
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Monkey wars
When rhesus monkeys are brutally massacred on the streets of Kolkata by a troop of power hungry langur monkeys, a young langur soldier's life is changed forever.
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The lighthouse war
Jamie and Ramsay figure out how to recharge the Salmon, the extraterrestrial device that allows them to travel through wormholes in space. Heading back to the planet Altair, Jamie discovers that the Witch Queen will do anything to get her hands on Jamie and the Salmon.
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