Armed Forces, Memorial and Veterans Day List!
Title: Brave Like Me
By: Barbara Kerley
Published: 2016
When someone is serving our country, far from home, everyone in their family has to be brave. Including -- and sometimes especially -- the kids. This book speaks to all kids in this situation in telling the story of a boy and a girl with parents away on duty. It captures the children's worries, fears, trials, and triumphs while waiting for their parents to return from service.
Age Range: 4 - 8 years
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Title: Crow Call
By: Lois Lowry
Published: 2009
Two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry has crafted a beautiful picture book about the power of longing and the importance of reconnection between a girl and her father in post-WWII America.
Age Range: 9 - 12 years
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Title: Hero Dad
By: Melinda Hardin
Published: 2010
Some superheroes wear rocket-propelled boots, drive super-powered cars, and have X-ray vision. But other superheroes wear army boots, drive tanks, and go away for long trips to make the world a safer place. It's a tough job, but that's what superheroes have to do. With Melinda Hardin's simple text and with Bryan Langdo's endearing watercolor-and-pencil illustrations, Hero Dad makes a difficult and tender subject more accessible to children with parents serving far from home.
Age Range: 4- 8 years
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Title: Hero Mom
By: Melinda Hardin
Published: 2013
A tribute to moms who serve their country in the military, revealing their contributions as unsung heroes who construct buildings, fly planes, drive tanks and do many other important things to make the world a safer place.
Age Range: 4 - 8 years
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Title: In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae
By: Linda Granfield
Published: 1995
In this award-winning book, the lines of the celebrated poem are interwoven with fascinating information about the First World War (1914-1918) and details of daily life in the trenches in Europe. Also included are accounts of McCrae's experience in his field hospital and the circumstances that led to the writing of "In Flanders Fields."
Age Range: 9 - 13 years
Call Number: x808.81 Granf.L
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below....
Title: Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot: a True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy that Fell from the Sky
By: Margot Theis Raven
Published: 2002
The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
Age Range: 5- 10 years
Call Number: x943.155 Raven.M
Title: My Red Balloon
By: Eve Bunting
Published: 2005
A young boy waits with both excitement and apprehension for his father to disembark from the aircraft carrier returning to port after many months at sea.
Age Range: 4- 8 years
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Title: Nubs: the True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
By: Brian Dennis
Published: 2009
The story of a wild dog who befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis in Iraq, and, when they were separated, trekked seventy miles through the desert winter to rejoin his friend.
Age Range: 3 - 8 years
Call Number: x636.7 Denni.B
Title: The Poppy Lady : Moina Belle Michael and her Tribute to Veterans
By: Barbara Elizabeth Walsh
Published: 2012
Known as the Poppy Lady, Moina Belle Michael, a schoolteacher from Georgia, successfully established the Flanders Field Memorial Poppy as a universal symbol of tribute and support for veterans and their families during World War I and II.
Age Range: 7 - 10 years
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Title: Rolling Thunder
By: Kate Messner
Published: 2017
Award-winning author Kate Messner and acclaimed artist Greg Ruth honor the sacrifices of American veterans and their families in this poetic tribute.
Age Range: 4 - 8 years
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Title: Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse who Became a Hero
By: Patricia McCormick
Published: 2017
The inspiring true story of Reckless, the brave little horse who became a Marine during the Korean War.
Age Range: 6 -10 years
Call Number: x636.0886 Mccor.P
Title: Tuesday Tucks Me In: The Loyal Bond between a Soldier and his Service Dog
By: Luis Carlos Montalván
Published: 2014
From former U.S. Army Captain and New York Times bestselling author of Until Tuesday, comes what Amazon.com has declared the "Best Nonfiction Children's Book of 2014." As narrated by Tuesday, this book is a day in the life of this service dog extraordinaire.
Age Range: 4 years and up
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Title: The Wall
By: Eve Bunting
Published: 1990
A young boy and his father visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to find the name of the boy's grandfather: George Munoz.
Age Range: 6 - 9 years
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Title: Year of the Jungle
By: Suzanne Collins
Published: 2013
Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the postcards stop coming she worries that he will never make it home.
Age Range: 5 years and up
Call Number: J ILLUSTRATED FICTION Collins at Niles Maine District Library
Title: The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage
By: Walter Dean Myers
Published: 2006
The true story of the African American heroes of World War 1, the soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, dubbed "the Harlem Hellfighters."
Age Range: 10 years and up
Call Number: x940.41273 Myers.W
Title: Heroism Begins with Her: inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. military
By: Winifred Conkling
Published: 2019
A collection of more than 80 profiles about the brave women in the US military.
Age Range: 9 years and up
Call Number: x355.0092 Conkl.W
Title: Letters to a Soldier
By: David Flavey
Published: 2009
Mrs. Julie Hutt’s fourth-grade class in Roslyn, New York, writes to a soldier in Iraq to thank him for his service and to find out what it’s like to be a U.S. solider: What is a soldier’s job exactly? How do soldiers spend their spare time? Don’t they miss home? The children’s letters were answered by First Lieutenant David Falvey, a twenty-five-year-old military police officer serving in Baghdad with the Army National Guard.
Age Range: 9 years and up
Call Number: x956.7044 Falve.D
Title: Love you, Soldier
By: Amy Hest
Published: 1991, republished in 2000
Katie, a Jewish girl living in New York City during World War II, sees many dynamic changes in her world as she ages from seven to ten waiting for her father to return from the war.
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Call Number: J Hest
Title: Twenty One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
By: Jeff Gottesfeld
Published: 2021
With every step, the Tomb Guards pay homage to America’s fallen. Discover their story, and that of the unknown soldiers they honor, through resonant words and illustrations.
Age Range: 5 - 10 years
Call Number: x355.1 Gotte.J