18 books like Torn

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Under the persimmon tree Suzanne Fisher Staples · 2005 · ★ 3.6 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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 huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. Shares: Afghan War, Afghanistan, War, Children's fiction

The New Recruit Andy McNab · 2013 · ★ 4.8 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate What if your prank killed your best friend. Could you live with yourself? You try to forget and move on; you enrol in Army training, you want to make something of your life. The training is tough and it almost breaks you. But you survive; you know youâe(tm)ll make a good soldier. Finally, when youâe(tm)re out in Afghanistan, under enemy fire, you come face-to-face with your best friendâe(tm)s… Shares: Afghan War, Soldiers, War, Children's fiction

Operation Oleander Valerie O. Patterson · 2013 · ★ 3.7 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Seventh-grader Jess and her friends establish the Order of the Oleander to collect supplies for an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan, where two of their parents are deployed, but when disaster strikes and many blame the Order, Jess must find a way to go on. Shares: Afghan War, Afghanistan, Soldiers, War

A Million Miles Away Lara Avery · 2015 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Twin sisters Kelsey and Michelle Maxfield look identical -- but they couldn't be more different. Kelsey is the captain of the dance team and loves her cute college boyfriend, Davis. Michelle is a free-spirited artist and flits from one guy to the next, the latest a soldier recently deployed to Afghanistan. Despite their differences, Kelsey and Michelle can't live without each other--until, in an… Shares: Afghan War, Soldiers, War, Children's fiction

Shadow Michael Morpurgo · 2010 · ★ 3.8 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "When Shadow, a bomb-sniffing spaniel, goes missing in the middle of war-torn Afghanistan, his soldier-owner is devastated. Meanwhile, Shadow makes friends with a local Afghan boy, and sees a whole other side of the war. But as Christmas draws ever closer, the question is - will Shadow and his trainer ever be reunited...?" --Publisher description. Shares: Afghan War, Afghanistan, War, Children's fiction

Shattered Jennifer L. Armstrong · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 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… Shares: War stories, War, Children's fiction

Dogfight Craig Simpson · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Join Finn Gunnersen in his first Special Operation . . . The first in a new WWII action-adventure series from the author of Resistance ('a genuine page-turner' ETC).Eighty miles per hour . . . 'Now, Loki!' I said, seizing the other column in front of me. We both pulled back. The plane bumped and lurched like a runaway train about to derail. Then, suddenly, the pounding ceased and everything… Shares: Soldiers, War, Children's fiction

Purple Heart Patricia McCormick · 2009 · ★ 3.8 When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero.There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. A little boy who'd been Matt's friend. And Matt can't shake the feeling that he was somehow involved in his death. But because of a head injury he sustained just moments after the… Shares: Medical fiction, Soldiers, War, Children's fiction

The Battle of Hackham Heath John Flanagan · 2016 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate As Morgarath recruits an army of Wargals, Halt ventures into enemy territory to uncover the extent of Morgarath's plan of attack. Shares: Soldiers, War, Children's fiction

Two of Swords? K. J. Parker · 2015 'Skilful plotting and rich scene-setting' - GUARDIAN'Parker's skilful control of pacing, expert rendering of characters, and subtle sense of humour add depth and believability' - Library Journal A soldier with a gift for archery. A woman who kills without care. Two brothers, both unbeatable generals, now fighting for opposing armies. No one in the vast and once glorious United Empire remains… Shares: Soldiers, War, Children's fiction

Parvana's Journey Deborah Ellis · 2002 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The second book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is ParvanaIn 2001, a war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana’s father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. Parvana… Shares: Afghanistan, War, Children's fiction

Gentle Annie Mary Francis Shura · 1991 · ★ 3.9 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A biography of Anna Blair Etheridge, a nurse during the Civil War, from childhood through her four years of service with the Army of the Potomac. Shares: Medical care, War, Children's fiction

The drowned cities Paolo Bacigalupi · 2012 · ★ 3.9 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her. Shares: Soldiers, War stories, War, Children's fiction

Prisoners of war C. Alexander London · 2013 · ★ 4.9 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 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. Shares: Soldiers, War stories, War, Children's fiction

Prodigy Marie Lu · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic. Shares: Soldiers, War stories, War, Children's fiction

Bang, bang, you're dead Louise Fitzhugh · 1969 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A group of children find that while play war can be fun, real war is no fun at all. Shares: War stories, War, Children's fiction

Amina's blanket Helen Dunmore · 2000 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Moderate 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. Shares: War stories, War, Children's fiction

A history of glitter and blood Hannah Moskowitz · 2015 · ★ 3.2 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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… Shares: War stories, War, Children's fiction

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