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Community Book Connection 2009 - 2010 A Long Way Gone |
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About the Book
A Long Way Gone is a gripping story of a child’s journey through hell and back. There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. He is one of the first to tell his story in his own words. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting 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. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope. (Text taken from official web site.)
Reviews and Articles on the Book :
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"A Long Way Gone"- List of articles on Beah's book from Literature Resource Center
"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Adrian Johnson. RUSI Journal. Dec 2007. Vol. 152 , Iss. 6; pg. 106, 2 pgs from Proquest Research Library
"A LONG WAY GONE" by Anita Jackson-Hall. U.S. Catholic. Oct 2007. Vol. 72 , Iss. 10; pg. 45, 1 pgs from Proquest Research Library
"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier/Black Man's Grave: Letters from Sierra Leone" by Mary H Moran. African Studies Review. Apr 2008. Vol. 51 , Iss. 1; pg. 197, 3 pgs from Proquest Research Library
"The Perfect Weapon for the Meanest Wars" - by Jeffrey Gettleman. New York Times . Apr 29, 2007. from ProQuest Newspapers.
"When children are pushed into the fray" by Carol Huang. The Christian Science Monitor . Feb 13, 2007 from ProQuest Newspapers.
"PURSUITS; Books: A Boy Soldier's Story" by John Corry. Wall Street Journal. Feb 10, 2007.from ProQuest Newspapers.
"Disturbing Memoir Outsells Literary Comfort Food at Starbucks" by Julie Bosman. New York Times. Mar 10, 2007.from ProQuest Newspapers.
"The NEW FACE OF WARFARE." (cover story) by Fatin Abbas. Current. Jul/Aug2007 Issue 494, p11-15, 5p. from Academic Search Complete
"Review of Beasts of No Nation and A Long Way Gone." By: Mnubi, Godfrey M.; Hoover, John H.. Reclaiming Children & Youth, Fall2008, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p58-61, 4p. from Academic Search Complete
"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier." By: MUENGER, ELIZABETH A.. War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, 2008, Vol. 20 Issue 1/2, p369-371, 3p. from Academic Search Complete
"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier."By: Moran, Mary H.. African Studies Review, Apr2008, Vol. 51 Issue 1, p197-199, 3p;from Academic Search Complete
"Books for Young Adults." Young Adult Library Services, Spring2008, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p20-22, 3p. from Academic Search Complete
Other Reviews on the Web:
"A Long Way Gone": A boy soldier's firsthand account of hell by William Boyd Feb 23, 2007 New York Times.
"A Long way gone, Ismael Beah - book review" Ishmael Beah, recent speaker at Assembly at Hopkins
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