Victoria Amelina’s unfinished notebook was salvaged after she was killed by a missile. From a bunker, meanwhile, John Lyons ...

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HELL Run Tobruk is the third book in the Jack Pembroke series, set during World War II. The story follows Lieutenant Jack ...

In his amusing and enlightening new book, Gabe Henry traces the history of these efforts, beginning with a 12th-century monk named Orrmin, continuing through the beginnings of American English and the ...

The annual Battle of the Books is what Howard County Library System CEO and President Tonya Aikens called a “fifth grade rite of passage.” Students dress up in teams and compete to answer ...

1,700 5th graders will participate in Battle of the Books Friday at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Hundreds of costumed fifth graders from Howard County Public and private schools fill the floor in ...

Elementary school students participate in the annual Battle of the Books event Thursday at the Santa Barbara County Education Office. Students throughout the county answered questions based on ...

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — On Wednesday night, students from Pugliese West Elementary School participated in the 'West Battle of the Books' event. The three-hour competition was held in the gym and ...

QUEENSBURY, N.Y. — A celebration of reading took center stage recently as 637 students from 23 local school districts competed in the exciting “Battle of the Books” at SUNY Adirondack.

I built model ships and planes, played war games in our suburban garden and devoured books about ... soon thrust into battle while running supplies to the beleaguered town of Tobruk, home to ...

Nevertheless, for anyone who wants an account of the siege rich in the latest scholarship, this is the one to buy. For me, the great virtue of the book is precisely that Bull often goes against ...