A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier / Ishmael Beah.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780786296408 (hardcover : lg. print : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0786296402 (hardcover : lg. print : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 399 p. (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, 2007.
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Summary, etc.: | My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime." "Yes, sometime." This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. Beah, now 25 years old, tells how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Ishmael, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Ansonia Public Library | LP 966.404 BEA (Text) | 34045105770098 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | LP 921/BEA (Text) | 34029110688784 | Adult Nonfiction Large Type | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | LP B BEAH BEA (Text) | 34047110797272 | Adult Nonfiction Large Type | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | LP 966.404 BEA (Text) | 33420145053485 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | 920 BEAH ISHMAEL (Text) | 34013076477564 | Adult Nonfiction Large Type | Available | - |
Wolcott Public Library | LP 966.404 BEAH (Text) | 34031100733646 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |