TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beah,Ishmael
TI  - A long way gone: Memoirs of a boy soldier
SN  - 978-0374531263
AV  - DT 516.828 .B43A3 2007
U1  - 966.404B 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Beah, Ishmael,
KW  - Child soldiers
KW  - Sierra Leone
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1991-2002
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Participation, Juvenile
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1961-
N1  - "Sarah Crichton Books."
N2  - "In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them." "In a Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a story: 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 Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and finally, to heal."--BOOK JACKET
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006017101-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006017101-d.html
ER  -