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Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierAuthor: Ishmael Beah
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
Year: 2007
Genre: Memoir, war, Africa
229 pages
A searing memoir by a Sierra Leonean boy soldier. He writes clearly and directly about his horrific experiences, often in simple yet beautiful passages. I've read a reasonable number of memoirs by child war victims, but few by young people who, like Beah, actively participated as combatants. I highly recommend this memoir; I will teach with it as soon as I have a chance.
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