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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.
ISBN:
9780143312260

9780670063666
Publisher:
Toronto : Puffin Canada 2006.
Edmonton Public Schools