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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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A member of Navy SEAL Team 3 describes his life as a father and husband, and as the serviceman with the most confirmed sniper kills in the history of the United States military while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Recounts definitive moments from the author's career as a Navy SEAL, discussing the missions that had the greatest personal meaning for him and explaining the lessons and values he hopes to pass on to the next generation.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
264 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of his best-selling book, The Heart and the Fist, Eric speaks directly to teen readers, interweaving memoir and intimate second-person narratives that ask the reader to put themselves in the shoes of himself and others. Readers will share in Erics evolution from average kid to globe-traveling humanitarian to warrior, training and serving with the most elite military outfit in the world: the Navy SEALs. Along the way, theyll...
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English
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The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.
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Language
English
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"For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare. Poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical...
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English
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"Recounts how the highly decorated Navy SEAL's unstoppable sense of humor, positive attitude, and fierce determination helped him survive after being shot in the face by an enemy sniper on a roof in Ramadi, Iraq. Though blinded, the irrepressible Job recovered from his wounds and began facing a new set of obstacles with his characteristic humor and resolve. He married the girl of his dreams, hunted elk, climbed Mt. Rainier, graduated college with...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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In his 37 years in the military, McRaven saw both the best and worst of humanity and shares stories of the real, everyday heroes who have inspired him.
Growing up in Texas, McRaven dreamed of being a superhero and saving the earth from destruction. As he grew older he found real heroes everywhere he went-- and none of them had superpowers, none wore capes or cowls. But they all possessed qualities that gave them the power to help others, to make...
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Language
English
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Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two former roommates and best friends were...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War...
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Language
English
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"What are the odds? Statistics tell us that African American males growing up in a single-parent household are nine times more likely to drop out of high school and twenty times more likely to end up in prison than any other demographic. But what would it take for one young man not only to rise above those statistics but also become a celebrated Navy SEAL, an acclaimed Hollywood actor, and a deep man of faith? For Remi Adeleke--whose life journey...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and which culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. In these pages,...
14) Warrior dog
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xi, 241 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
295 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A high octane narrative of physical and mental toughness, giving unprecedented insight to the inner workings of the training and secret missions of the world's most respected and feared combat unit--Seal Team Six, the elite warriors who took down Osama bin Laden.
16) Fearless: the undaunted courage and ultimate sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team Six operator Adam Brown
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An absorbing chronicle of heroism and humanity, Fearless presents an indelible portrait of a highly trained warrior who would enter a village with weapons in hand to hunt terrorists, only to come back the next day with an armload of shoes and meals for local children. It is a deeply personal, revealing glimpse inside the SEAL Team SIX brotherhood that also shows how these elite operators live out the rest of their lives, away from danger, as husbands,...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of former Navy SEAL Mike Day, who survived being shot twenty-seven times while deployed in Iraq.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition; [Young reader's edition].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
vi, 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses an elite group that is trained to do very difficult missions.
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