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Useful Web Sites for Researching Public Policy Issues (Grades 9–12)
Teachers and students alike can use these websites to research and public policy issues. Issues include education, the war in Iraq, health policy, the environment, and the economy

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End in Sight
The future of Iraq will soon be in the hands of the Iraqi people. In front of a group of Marines at the Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina, President Barack Obama announced last week that America's war in Iraq is nearing its end

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Scholastic News Online

Grades 3-8

3/2/2009

Looking Ahead
President George W. Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday to discuss the military situation in Iraq. The meeting took place just one day after a new report about the war in Iraq was released. The report, written by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, called the situation "grave," warning that "time is running out

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Scholastic News Online

Grades 3-8

12/7/2006

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Sunrise Over Fallujah
by Walter Dean Myers
Grade level Equivalent: 4.7
Lexile Level: 780L
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Grades 9-12

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Robin Perry, a young man from Harlem in New York City, is deployed to Iraq just before the start of the war in 2003. His experiences there and the friends he meets have a profound impact on his life
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A Kurdish Family
Grade level Equivalent: 7.9
Lexile Level: 870L
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Grades 3-5

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This book follows the Ahmet family in its narrow escape from Iraqi soldiers following the Iran-Iraq War to its eventual safety in the United States. A brief overview of Kurdish history, customs, and the current struggle for freedom is included
The Librarian of Basra
by Jeanette Winter
Grade level Equivalent: 3.4
Lexile Level: 640L 		Guided Reading Level: L
DRA Level: 28
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Grades K-2

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Alia Muhammad Baker is the real-life librarian of Basra. As the war in Iraq approaches her city, she wonders what will happen to the library's thirty thousand books. Will they be destroyed, or can she find a way to save them