A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier

Título
A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier

Ishmael, Beah

Resumen
Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

Memoirs of a boy soldier.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2007-2008

Descripción física
229 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Edición
1st pbk. ed.

Alex Award, 2008

Materia personal
Beah, Ishmael, 1980-

Término de la materia
Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Biography.
 
Soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Biography.
 
Children -- Sierra Leone -- Biography.

Término geográfico
Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991- -- Personal narratives.
 
Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991- -- Participation, Juvenile.
 
Sierra Leone -- Social conditions -- 1961-
 
Sierra Leone -- History -- Biography.
 
Sierra Leone -- History -- Personal narratives.
 
Sierra Leone -- Social conditions.

Síntesis
Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

ISBN
9780143190172
 
9780374531263
 
9780329663995

Información de publicación
New York : Sara Crichton, 2008, c2007.


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