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2) Park's quest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Assisting her grandmother's investigation of her grandfather's fate during the Vietnam War, Mai struggles to adapt to an unfamiliar culture while redefining her sense of family.
A California girl born and raised, Mai can't wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai's parents think this trip will be...
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the timeline of the Vietnam War, including the causes of the conflict and the role played by the United States' involvement, and explores the war's impact upon today's political and cultural development.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Approaches the topic of the Vietnam War from the perspective of soldiers fighting in it.
U.S. soldiers and their allies fighting in the Vietnam War faced violence on and off the battlefield and could never be sure who was friendly and who was an enemy. Experience life on the front lines in a foreign land, fighting a war against the spread of Communism.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blazers Books, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes various weapons and vehicles used by U.S. and North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War was difficult for the United States troops. Military forces had limited choices of vehicles and weapons to use in the jungles. U.S. soldiers used flamethrowers and cluster bombs, while the North Vietnamese forces buried thousands of land mines. Young readers will learn about the important tools used in the Vietnam War.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lieutenant Colonel Leo K. Thorsness was a Wild Weasel pilot in the Vietnam War, targeting enemy missile sites. On a 1967 mission, when his wingmen ejected from their burning aircraft, Thorsness initiated attacks on enemy planes and other daring maneuvers in order to protect them. Two weeks later, he was shot down and would become a P.O.W. for the next six years."--Amazon.
15) Dodger boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1970 Vancouver, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and her best friend, Dawn, are keen to avoid the pitfalls of adolescence. Couldn't they just skip teenhood altogether, along with its annoying focus on boyfriends and obsessing about marriage? Couldn't one just learn about life from Jane Austen and spend the days eating breakfast at noon, and go to the upcoming outdoor hippie music festival? But life becomes more complicated when the girls meet a draft...
16) Strays
Author
Series
Dog tags volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As American troops are being pulled out of Vietnam, young soldier Chuck goes AWOL when he learns that the Army intends to euthanize his companion, military working dog Ajax.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world. The Vietnam War was as much a part of the tumultuous Sixties as Flower Power and the Civil Rights Movement. Five US presidents were convinced that American troops could end a war in the small, divided country of Vietnam and stop Communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. But they were wrong, and the result was the death of 58,000 American...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.
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