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Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
While camping out on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, Hank and his best friend, James, hear loud explosions. Suddenly, Japanese planes fill the sky. Pearl Harbor is under attack! James wants to hide, but Hank wants to capture the battle on his trusty camera.
42) Palisades Park
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars, and the park's eventual closing in 1971.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"President Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on December 8, 1941, lasted a mere six and a half minutes. But his words and tone - in a monologue that would later be named the Infamy Speech - sent ripples into a nation and a world that continue even today. The historical implications that emerged from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were unprecedented, launching America not only into the depths of a dangerous war, but forever altering the safety and...
46) Five Decembers
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-150
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor." --Back cover.
47) The dragon pearl
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Josh and Ling were expecting a boring vacation visiting each of their parents at an archaeological dig in China. But the new friends soon discover they're right in the middle of an adventure when they find a Chinese Golden Dragon.
48) December '41
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author William Martin comes a WWII thriller as intense as The Day of the Jackal and as gripping as The Eye of the Needle. In December '41, Martin takes us on the ultimate manhunt, a desperate chase from Los Angeles to Washington, D. C., in the first weeks of the Second World War. On the day after Pearl Harbor, shocked Americans gather around their radios to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, a German...
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 11
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When Stosh travels back in time to 1941 in hopes of preventing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II, he meets Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Includes notes about Williams' life and career.o
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"When Grace, April, and Poppy join the US Army Nurse Corps, they see it as little more than an adventure, one made all the better by their first station: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Joined at the hip, idealistic Grace, exuberant Poppy, and brave but haunted April frolic in the sun, attending parties, flirting with the handsome soldiers, and becoming fast friends with seasoned nurse Eva. Like the Hawaiian sun, their future seems warm and bright--until the...
53) Somewhere a song
Author
Series
Daughters of fortune (Judith Pella) volume 2
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
In the wake od Pearl Harbor, three sisters struggle to keep their family together even as the tentacles of war reach into their homeland.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Nanea wants to help! She may be the youngest in her family, but she knows she's grown-up enough to "dip her paddle in" and be useful. Before she can prove she's ready for responsibility , the unthinkable happens. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor--the naval base were her father works--and America is at war! Now Nanea must cope with missing friends and family members, rumors of additional attacks, and lonely nighttime blackouts. As the war wears on, Nanea...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Unbroken Spirits" is the stories of three courageous hardworking women who triumphed over their adversities not by becoming rich, powerful, winners in society but by enduring patiently and nobly under terrible adverse conditions. These women were not queens or princesses. They were underdogs. Some might even call them "losers." Each of these very special women played an important role in a famous Colorado conflict."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Nine-year-old Nanea Mitchell may be the youngest in her family, but she still wants to "dip her paddle in" and be useful. She knows she's grown-up enough to help in her grandparents' market. But before she can prove that she's ready for more responsibility, the unthinkable happens: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the naval base where her father works, and America is at war! With friends and family missing, and rumors of more attacks to come, Nanea worries...
Author
Series
Daughters of fortune (Judith Pella) volume 2
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, three sisters struggle to keep their family together even as the tentacles of war reach into their homeland.
58) The chase is on
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
It is a picture book featuring Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Elizabeth Swann. This is mostly about the famous race/chase between Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones.
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Broome, Australia, 1893. It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets the dashing pearling master, Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the pearl. Sydney, Australia, 1995. Lily Barton embarks on a search for her family roots which leads her to Broome. But her quest for identity reveals more than she could have ever imagined.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023].
Description
"Based on the real life of Lieutenant Annie Fox, Chief Nurse of Hickam Hospital, The Woman with a Purple Heart is an inspiring WWII novel of heroic leadership, courage, and friendship that also exposes a shocking and shameful side of history. Annie Fox will stop at nothing to serve her country. But what happens when her country fails her? In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an air force base in Honolulu. The...