A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier

Titre
A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier

Ishmael, Beah

Sommaire
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.

Date de publication comme intervalle
2007-2008

Description matérielle
229 p. : map ; 21 cm.

Edition
1st pbk. ed.

Alex Award, 2008

Vedette-matière - nom de personne
Beah, Ishmael, 1980-

Terme de vedette-matière
Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Biography.
 
Soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Biography.
 
Children -- Sierra Leone -- Biography.

Terme géographique
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.

Résumé
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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780143190172
 
9780374531263
 
9780329663995

Informations de publication
New York : Sara Crichton, 2008, c2007.


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