Book Detail
Long Way Gone, A: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Beah, Ishmael | Illustrator: |
| Title: Long Way Gone, A: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Date: 2008 |
| Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux | City: |
| ISBN, paperback: 0374531269 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: Yes |
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General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): memoirs/reminiscences, nonfiction | |
HSE Descriptor(s): social studies |
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Summary: |
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| The story of a Sierra Leonian boy who at age 12 was recruited and forced into being a gun toting, drug crazed soldier and then learned how to live with what he had done after going through a UNICEF rehabilitation program. | |
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| This text is too complex and long for many adult new readers, but those who are interested in the topic will love carefully chosen excerpts. Teachers could begin by reading sections aloud. It raises such provocative questions as how we turn our lives around (and help others to do so), and how we live with our pasts that some teachers will find it a very valuable book. Other suggestions are to create a biographical timeline; do internet searches on the fighting in Sierra Leone; and write biopoems about Ishmael at the beginning of the book, then his days as a soldier, then his rehab time, then the end of book. | |
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