Shattered
Title
:
Shattered
Personal Author EPSB
:
Eric, Walters
Summary
:
Fifteen-year-old Ian must complete community volunteer service at a soup kitchen for the homeless. He is rescued from a near-mugging by a homeless man named Sarge, who was a soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces and served as a peacekeeper in Rwanda. Sarge tells him about the Rwandan genocide and Ian tries to help this shattered man who must live with his nightmarish memories.
Year Published
:
2006
Physical Description
:
viii, 195 p. : ill., maps. ; 24 cm.
Note
:
"Viking Canada."
Age Interest level
:
11 and up.
Grade Interest level
:
7-10
Program Information
:
Accelerated Reader MG 4.4 7.0 105338
Gr. 8+
ACCELERATED READER-YELLOW 7
Accelerated Reader 4.4 7.0
Awards
:
Ontario Library Association White Pine Award nominee
Corporate Subject
:
United Nations -- Peacekeeping forces -- Rwanda -- Fiction.
Canada. Canadian Armed Forces -- Fiction.
Subject
:
Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Canada -- Fiction.
Homeless persons -- Fiction.
Soup kitchens -- Fiction.
Young volunteers -- Fiction.
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Fiction.
Genocide -- Rwanda -- Fiction.
Rwanda -- Genocide -- Fiction.
Volunteer work -- Fiction.
Teenage volunteers in social service -- Fiction.
Peacekeeping forces -- Rwanda -- Fiction.
Compassion -- Fiction.
Historical fiction
Geographic Term
:
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Fiction.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities -- Fiction.
Added Author
:
Dallaire, Roméo A.
Summary
:
Fifteen-year-old Ian must complete community volunteer service at a soup kitchen for the homeless. He is rescued from a near-mugging by a homeless man named Sarge, who was a soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces and served as a peacekeeper in Rwanda. Sarge tells him about the Rwandan genocide and Ian tries to help this shattered man who must live with his nightmarish memories.
ISBN
:
9780143312260
9780670063666
Publisher
:
Toronto : Puffin Canada 2006.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Stratford | F WAL | Book | 30577000187246 | Fiction |
| Stratford | F WAL | Book | 30577000210667 | Fiction |