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Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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In December 2015, the Pentagon changed a rule to allow American women to serve for the first time ever in front-line ground combat troops. Women have fulfilled many military roles throughout history, including nursing; driving ambulances; handling administrative duties; working as mechanics; and serving in the WASPs, WACs, WAVES, and SPARS. More recently women are flying jets, conducting surveillance, commanding naval ships, and now fighting on the...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Suicide is among the top three causes of death for young people ages 15 to 24. In fact, this global epidemic claims 41,000 lives per year in the United States alone. Suicide touches people of all ages—from those who consider and attempt suicide to those who lose a loved to suicide. Yet silence often surrounds these deaths and makes suicide difficult to understand. Looking beyond common myths and misconceptions, author Connie Goldsmith examines common...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
Pigeons were crucial to communications between Allied troops in both world wars. When phone, radio, and telegraph lines were cut or officers needed to send top secret information, it was pigeons that they depended on to reach support staff far from the front. In fact, pigeons earned the most medals of any animal for their services during these conflicts.
Discover how pigeons were domesticated and trained for use in military conflicts, learn about...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Our camp, they tell us, is now to be called a 'relocation center' and not a 'concentration camp.' We are internees, not prisoners. Here's the truth: I am now a non-alien, stripped of my constitutional rights. I am a prisoner in a concentration camp in my own country. I sleep on a canvas cot under which is a suitcase with my life's belongings: a change of clothes, underwear, a notebook and pencil. Why?"—Kiyo Sato
In 1941 Kiyo Sato and her eight...
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