Format:
Book
Title:
A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier / by Ishmael Beah.
Author:
Beah, Ishmael, 1980-
Call Number:
966.404 Beah
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Description:
229 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Summary:
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. Ishmael Beah, now 25 years old, tells how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels 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.--From publisher description.
Subjects:
Beah, Ishmael, 1980-
Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Biography.
Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Personal narratives.
Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Participation, Juvenile -- Biography.
Sierra Leone -- Social conditions -- 1961-
Children's Africana Book Honor.
Adult core collection.
ISBN:
9780374531263 (trade)
0374105235 (hardcover : alk. paper)