Teens Celebrating National Veterans and Military Families Month!

Updated October 24, 2025
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The things a brother knows
Reinhardt, Dana.
Paper Book
The story of a young marine's return from war in the Middle East and the psychological effects it has on his family. Finally, Levi Katznelson's older brother, Boaz, has returned. Boaz was a high school star who had it all and gave it up to serve in a war Levi can't understand....
Taken
Massey, David (David Robert), 1960- author.
Paper Book
The trip of a lifetime turns into a fight to the death when six extreme athletes are TAKEN hostage by pirates off the coast of Africa. By the author of TORN.Six crew members are toughing it out, trying to come together as a team to sail around the world on a grueling challenge for charity. Four are...
The summer I found you
Perry, Jolene B. (Jolene Betty), 1976- author.
Paper Book
Kate's dream boyfriend has just broken up with her and she's still reeling from her diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. Aidan planned on being a lifer in the army and went to Afghanistan straight out of high school. Now he's a disabled young veteran struggling to embrace his new life. ...
The unsung hero of Birdsong, USA
Woods, Brenda
Paper Book
The Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author tells the moving story of the friendship between a young white boy and a Black WWII veteran who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South. For Gabriel Haberlin, life seems pretty close to perfect in the small southern town...
Women in the military from drill sergeants to fighter pilots
Goldsmith, Connie, 1945- author.
Paper Book
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...
Night Witches a novel of World War II
Lasky, Kathryn
Paper Book
From bestselling and award-winning author Kathryn Lasky comes an explosive adventure following the teen girl fighter pilots who took on Hitler's army . . . and won.16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on...
Walls : a novel
Elliott, Laura
Paper Book
This powerful Cold War novel tells the story of two cousins, one German and the other an American Army brat, as they navigate the political and social turmoil that threatens their friendship and ends in the abrupt rise of the Berlin Wall-which may separate them forever. ...
Anything but okay
Littman, Sarah
Paper Book
When lines are drawn, how do you find courage in the face of hate, and what does it truly mean to take a stand?Stella and Farida have been best friends forever, but lately things have been tense. It all started when Stella's brother came home from his latest tour with the US Marines in Afghanistan...
The making of a Navy SEAL my story of surviving the toughest challenge and training the best
Webb, Brandon.
Paper Book
BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS... HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF. Adapted from Webb's Adult BestsellerThe Red Circlefor a Young Adult Audience Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his...
Hazard
Dowell, Frances O'Roark
Paper Book
A kid filled with rage, suspended from the football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, and his father, newly home from the war in Afghanistan, reckon with the injuries they've caused to others and themselves in this unflinching middle grade novel in verse about love and forgiveness.
Camp Valor
McEwen, Scott
Paper Book
A young adult thriller from Scott McEwan, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of American Sniper, and Hof Williams. Valor: great courage in the face of danger When Wyatt gets framed for a friend's crime, he thinks his life is over....
If I ever get out of here a novel with paintings
Gansworth, Eric L.
Paper Book
"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Rain is Not My Indian Name.Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the...

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