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Lifeboat 12: based on a true story

By Susan Hood. 2018

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
War stories, General fiction, Adventure stories, Multi-cultural fictionAdventure and exploration, Poetry
Human-narrated audio

In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the…

ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. For grades 4-7

Fallen angels

By Walter Dean Myers. 1988

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
War stories, General fiction, Historical fictionAdventure and exploration, Social issues
Human-transcribed braille

Ritchie Perry, a black youth from Harlem, enlists in the army. He is sent to Vietnam where he struggles to…

survive racist officers, pitched battles, guerrilla raids, and multiple wounds. Violence and strong language. For senior high and older readers. 1988

Mutiny!

By Brad Strickland. 2002

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Adventure stories, Historical fiction, General fiction, War stories, Multi-cultural fictionAdventure and exploration
Human-transcribed braille

In 1687 eleven-year-old Irish orphan Davy sails to Jamaica to live with his uncle, Dr. "Patch" Shea. They join a…

British frigate where Patch and his friend Lieutenant William Hunter help stage an aborted mutiny. Fleeing, the mutineers commandeer a sloop and masquerade as pirates. Precedes Guns of Tortuga (BR 15069). For grades 4-7. 2002

A boy at war: a novel of Pearl Harbor

By Harry Mazer. 2001

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Historical fiction, War stories, General fictionAdventure and exploration
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

December 7, 1941. Fourteen-year-old Adam lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, where his father is stationed on a battleship. Adam and two…

of his classmates are fishing in a rowboat when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Although wounded, Adam is conscripted to help the survivors. For grades 6-9. 2001

A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By Harry Mazer. 2001

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
War storiesAdventure and exploration
Synthetic audio, Automated braille

They rowed hard, away from the battleships and the bombs. Water sprayed over them. The rowboat pitched one way and…

then the other. Then, before his eyes, the Arizona lifted up out of the water. That enormous battleship bounced up in the air like a rubber ball and split apart. Fire burst out of the ship. A geyser of water shot into the air and came crashing down. Adam was almost thrown out of the rowboat. He clung to the seat as it swung around. He saw blue skies and the glittering city. The boat swung back again, and he saw black clouds, and the Arizona, his father's ship, sinking beneath the water. -- from A Boy at War "He kept looking up, afraid the planes would come back. The sky was obscured by black smoke....It was all unreal: the battleships half sunk, the bullet holes in the boat, Davi and Martin in the water." December 7, 1941: On a quiet Sunday morning, while Adam and his friends are fishing near Honolulu, a surprise attack by Japanese bombers destroys the fleet at Pearl Harbor. Even as Adam struggles to survive the sudden chaos all around him, and as his friends endure the brunt of the attack, a greater concern hangs over his head: Adam's father, a navy lieutenant, was stationed on the USS Arizona when the bombs fell. During the subsequent days Adam -- not yet a man, but no longer a boy -- is caught up in the war as he desperately tries to make sense of what happened to his friends and to find news of his father. Harry Mazer, whose autobiographical novel, The Last Mission, brought the European side of World War II to vivid life, now turns to the Pacific theater and how the impact of war can alter young lives forever.

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