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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
War from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the
violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the
government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer
as a member of the army.
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
Born on November 23, 1980 in Mattru Jong, Bonthe District, Sierra
Leone, Beah is a former Sierra Leonean child soldier and currently
works for the Human Rights Watch Children’s Division Advisory
Committee while living in Brooklyn, New York.
Book Information
ISBN: 0-374-10523-5
Lexile: 920L
BIO BEA 229 p.
Subjects
Beah, Ishmael
www.alongwaygone.com
Soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Biography
Sierra Leone -- Social conditions
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone was nominated for a Quill Award in the Best Debut
Author category for 2007.
Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10
Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #3, and praising it as
"painfully sharp", and its ability to "take readers behind the dead
eyes of the child-soldier in a way no other writer has."