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Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Paperback
Condition - Fair
Listed - A month ago
Ships From - Texas
Est. Publication Date - Aug 2008
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Comes from a clean, smoke-free, and pet-free home 📚 Book condition - fair; has been well loved and may have some (but not detrimental) creases, highlights/writing, tears, or stains, may be an ex-library copy A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah ALA Alex Award At the age of twelve, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and, finally, to heal. This is an extraordinary and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
ISBN: 9780374531263
Publisher Description
A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces...
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