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A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Hardcover - 2007
by Ishmael Beah
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war, goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare.
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- Title A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- Author Ishmael Beah
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
- Date 2007
- Features Dust Cover, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0374105235I4N01
- ISBN 9780374105235 / 0374105235
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.56 x 5.9 x 0.86 in (21.74 x 14.99 x 2.18 cm)
- Reading level 920
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1990's
- Catalog Heading: Biographies
- Cultural Region: West Africa
- Curriculum Strand: Biographies
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Sierra Leone - History - Civil War, 1991-2002, Sierra Leone - Social conditions - 1961-
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006017101
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- ALA Best Books Young Adults, 01/01/2008, Page 1
- Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 05/01/2007, Page 359
- Entertainment Weekly, 02/15/2007, Page 82
- Kirkus Best Books, 03/01/2007, Page 3
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2007, Page 58
- Library Journal, 03/01/2007, Page 91
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/15/2006, Page 48
- Multicultural Review, 12/01/2007, Page 62
- New York Times, 02/25/2007, Page 12
- New Yorker (The), 02/12/2007, Page 85
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/02/2007, Page 13
- People Weekly, 02/19/2007, Page 53
- Publishers Weekly, 12/18/2006, Page 55
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/05/2007, Page 32
- School Library Journal, 04/01/2007, Page 171
- SLJ's Best Books, 12/01/2007, Page 41
- Time, 02/12/2007, Page 64
- Voice of Youth Advocates, 02/01/2007, Page 549
- Voya Top Ten Bks for Y/A, 04/01/2008, Page 7