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Author
Series
Poppy war volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A war orphan rises from her humble beginnings to become a powerful military commander, and perhaps her country's only hope for survival.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (257 pages)
Language
English
Description
During the summer between her junior and senior year of high school, spoiled Chicagoan Amy Nelson-Barak volunteers for Israeli military boot camp when she learns that her boyfriend, a commando in the Israeli Defense Force, will be at the same military base.
Author
Series
Light years volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
After centuries of exclusivity, the Quatra Fleet Academy finally accepts students from the settler planets, forcing four teenagers from different backgrounds, with different ambitions, motives, and missions, to work together to outmaneuver a mysterious alien enemy.
5) The Academy
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After messing up one too many times, Frankie Brooks, a future fashion editor, finds herself at military school where she must learn how to cope with the impossible military drills and specialized classes.
Frankie Brooks wants to become the world's next great fashion editor, and wants to get into the elite American Fashion Academy in New York City. But her parents come up with entirely different plans for her future: military school. How is Frankie...
Author
Series
Fleet School volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. He's top of his class in every school, but he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. But then Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview, and everything changes.
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes graphic novel volume 1
Publisher
Archaia
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Elias, Helene, and Tavi are Fivers - in training to become elite military recruits for the Martial Empire at Blackcliff Academy. When they're sent on a dangerous mission to steal a heavily-guarded poison on Isle South, the soon find themselves up against surprising enemies - including other recruits. As the true horror of their assignment is revealed, these three will begin to confront the harrowing realities of Martial rule, their place in the system...
Author
Series
Trouble in the stars volume 2
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Trouble, while training a rescued baby shapeshifter, must go undercover at a military academy to save Electra and the other cadets as a threat from the deep edges of space approaches.
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes graphic novel volume 2
Publisher
Archaia
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"REBELLION IS FORGED IN THE HEART OF THE EMPIRE. Before they were torn asunder, Laia lived happily and quietly with her Nan, Pop, and brother Darin within the Scholar district of Martial-ruled Serra. Although Laia is afraid to venture outside her home due to the heavy Martial presence, Darin loves to explore all parts of their home city... even those that are forbidden. A chance encounter with famed swordsmith Spiro Teluman, who sees in Darin a talent...
Author
Series
Pennyroyal academy volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
314 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A girl from the forest enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons"--
Author
Publisher
Dia Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the Academy of Tildor, the training ground for elite soldiers, Cadet Renee de Winter struggles to keep up with her male peers, but when her mentor is kidnapped to fight in illegal gladiator games, Renee and best friend Alec struggle to do what is right in a world of crime of political intrigue.
13) Stripes
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When John Winger loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he does what any red-blooded American would do: he joins the army and nearly starts WWIII.
14) Risking it all
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A high-achieving teen who's determined to become a fighter jet pilot is matched up with an accused criminal at an elite military boarding school.
Paige plans to graduate from Wallingford Academy and become a pilot in the US Air Force. She's inherited her father's no-nonsense attitude and whip-smart intelligence, all of which have made her the perfect Wallingford cadet. Logan, once a star basketball player, now spends his days playing video games....
15) Ender's game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD, NTSC (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
December 7, 1941: A recreation combining actual footage and historically accurate dramatized footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor newsreel: Special report on the Pearl Harbor attack. Formal Japanese surrender: Newsreel footage of the Japanese surrender from Tokyo Bay and the USS Missouri. Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter: An Air Force training film that dramatizes how to distinguish the Japanese Zero fighter plane from...
18) First shot
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As David enters his senior year of high school, a family secret emerges that could solve the mystery of why his mother was murdered two years ago.