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Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

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Adventure | Fiction | Historical

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Wings of the Eagle (The Black Orchestra #2)

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A WW2 spy story. 1943. Kurt Muller and a young colleague parachute into southern Germany to rescue a British-Canadian agent. The Allies have won the battle of the Atlantic, and German forces are retreating on all major fronts. The war in Europe is effectively over, but the Nazis will never accept defeat. An Abwehr deserter and member of the German resistance — the Black Orchestra — with a price on his head, Kurt quickly finds himself in a deadly race to prevent the Nazis from developing the first atomic bomb and changing the outcome of the Second World War.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

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History | Nonfiction | Science

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Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb

So, you’ve always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You’re in luck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer…he also has a master’s degree in nuclear engineering! But even though it’s not a complete do-it-yourself manual (assembly required, and plutonium is definitely not included), Fallout will bring you up to speed on the science and politics of the first nuclear gadgets.
Like its companion volumes, the focus of Fallout is on the scientists themselves — in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard, whose lives offer a cautionary tale about the uneasy alliance between the military, the government, and the beginnings of “big science.”

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660L

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Hiroshima

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Hiroshima, A Novella by Laurence Yep is a colorful and compelling story about the terrible and twisted story of the bombing of the Japanese City, Hiroshima. This powerful book follows two Japanese girls, Sachi and Riko, who are forced to work for the Japanese military in the city. Their lives are changed forever when the Enola Gay, a US bomber, drops one bomb on the city, the Atom Bomb. Now Hiroshima and the girls have to overcome the terrible bombing. In the midst of all the bombing and killing, Sachi and Riko are forced to flee the city.Later Sachi travels to America for plastic surgery to help with her scars.

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830L

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Fiction | Historical | Realistic

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Bomb, The

Shortly after the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, World War II came to and, and the terrible reality of the atomic age began . . .Sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu has lived on the Bikini Atoll in the western Pacific all his life. Now the United States government wants to use his home as a site for atomic weapons tests. The islanders are told that they must leave the island in the interest of world peace but can return when the land is safe again. Sorry doesn t believe the story. He is sure that radioactive fallout will poison the warm blue waters and beautiful white sand beaches, and Bikini Atoll will be lost to its people forever. Sorry knows that he has no choice but stop this disaster before it starts — even if it means standing alone against the U.S. military, and risking his own life to save his ancestral land.

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America Moves Forward: A History for Peter

Deals with the crucial period from 1917 to 1960

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Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the Worlds’s Most Dangerous Weapon


In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert, one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site at Los Alamos. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world’s most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb.
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