The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins

The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1999
Genre: World War, 1939-1945
ISBN: 9780439445764

A fictionalized account of the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France, told through the journal entries of a seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia.

Into No Man's Land

Into No Man's Land
Author: Ellen Emerson White
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-06
Genre: Diaries
ISBN: 9780545398886

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.

Max the Mighty

Max the Mighty
Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545628229

A companion to Newbery Honor winning author Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty. This is the dramatic, heart-wrenching tale of Max and Worm, two outsiders who turn to each other for survival. Meet Maxwell Kane, the brooding giant-of-a-boy who escaped from his basement hiding place and faced the real world in FREAK THE MIGHTY.Still grieving over the loss of his best friend, Kevin, Max finds himself defending a young, solitary girl cruelly nicknamed "Worm" because she loves to read so much.When Max gets blamed for a horrific crime, he and Worm are forced to run for their lives. They flee across America -- hunted by the police, and pursued by the mysterious man known as the Undertaker. The only way they can survive is to confront Worm's darkest and most revealing secret. And that means facing something more frightening than death itself.

On Enemy Soil

On Enemy Soil
Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Diaries
ISBN: 9780545398879

James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Stick and Whittle

Stick and Whittle
Author: Sid Hite
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439098298

Stick, a Civil War veteran in search of his lost love, and Whittle, an orphan on the run, team up on a wild adventure out West where they are soon involved in serious troubles and face unexpected dangers. Reprint.

A Narrative of the Negro

A Narrative of the Negro
Author: Leila Pendleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1912
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

An early history of African Americans by an African American woman.

American Airpower Comes Of Age—General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold’s World War II Diaries Vol. II [Illustrated Edition]

American Airpower Comes Of Age—General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold’s World War II Diaries Vol. II [Illustrated Edition]
Author: Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 927
Release: 2015-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786251523

Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 180 maps, plans, and photos. Gen Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold, US Army Air Forces (AAF) Chief of Staff during World War II, maintained diaries for his several journeys to various meetings and conferences throughout the conflict. Volume 1 introduces Hap Arnold, the setting for five of his journeys, the diaries he kept, and evaluations of those journeys and their consequences. General Arnold’s travels brought him into strategy meetings and personal conversations with virtually all leaders of Allied forces as well as many AAF troops around the world. He recorded his impressions, feelings, and expectations in his diaries. Maj Gen John W. Huston, USAF, retired, has captured the essence of Henry H. Hap Arnold—the man, the officer, the AAF chief, and his mission. Volume 2 encompasses General Arnold’s final seven journeys and the diaries he kept therein.

We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, a World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944

We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, a World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545540089

Newbery and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Walter Dean Myers's the WWII JOURNAL OF SCOTT PENDLETON COLLINS is now available in paperback, with an exciting repackaging!Following in the footsteps of his father and great-grandfather, both war veterans, Scott Pendleton Collins signs up for the army during the height of World War II. He is shipped out to England only to face weeks of boredom. He and his unit want to be out in the fields, doing something to help the Allied forces. Finally, the comrades find themselves on a boat heading to Normandy, France, in the dead of night. But as his boat approaches the beach, Scott suddenly realizes what they are up against, and it is an impossible invasion. Nothing in basic training, nothing he's heard from other soldiers, nothing he has ever experienced prepares Scott for what awaits on Omaha Beach. As D-Day rages around him, Scott is separated from his unit. Lost in the bloody chaos, he must find a way to live through the battle. Revolving around one of the most famous invasions in history, Scott's story is one of bravery and victory, heartache and pain, loss and survival.

The Get Over

The Get Over
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062269097

From beloved author Walter Dean Myers, this original 20-page short story serves as a prequel to his award-winning novel Monster, which has been read and loved by millions of readers. Word on the street is that a robbery is about to go down in Harlem, and Steve Harmon is right in the middle of it. Everyone is trying to prove who's the toughest. Steve gets caught up in the talk and wonders about the difference between right and wrong. Should he turn these guys in? Stay quiet? What choice will Steve make? Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. Epic Reads Impulse is a digital imprint with new releases each month.

The Journal of Jesse Smoke

The Journal of Jesse Smoke
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439121972

When Jesse Smoke and his family are forced to leave their home, land, and belongings, they must journey west, along with several thousand other Cherokees, on The Trail of Tears.