Ishmael Beah
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
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. 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....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. When Ishmael Beah's memoir A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers. Now Beah has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the center of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin...
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Language
Español
Description
En 1993, durante el ataque de un grupo rebelde armado a la población de Mattru Jong (Sierra Leona), Ishmael Beah, de 12 años de edad, se ve obligado a escapar hacia la selva, esquivando los cuerpos de los aldeanos abatidos por la disparos.
Tan solo unos días atrás, Ishmael, su hermano Junior y su amigo Talloi habían partido desde Mogbwemo, enfundados en vaqueros holgados y decididos a caminar 26 kilómetros para demostrar sus habilidades como...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. But when one of them comes under the sway of the more fortunate children of the elite and corrupt, her desire to resume an interrupted coming of age and forge her own destiny proves impossible to resist.