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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Hardcover - 2007

by Beah, Ishmael

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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 Beah, Ishmael
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, New York
  • Date 2007-02-13
  • Features Dust Cover, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ01UAC2_ns
  • 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
  • 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

About the author

Ishmael Beah was born in 1980 in Sierra Leone, West Africa. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vespertine Press, LIT, Parabola, and numerous academic journals. He is a UNICEF Ambassador and Advocate for Children Affected by War; a member of the Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Advisory Committee; an advisory board member at the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; visiting scholar at the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University; visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights at Rutgers University; cofounder of the Network of Young People Affected by War (NYPAW); and president of the Ishmael Beah Foundation. He has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and many panels on the effects of war on children. His book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier has been published in over thirty languages and was nominated for a Quill Award in 2007. Time magazine named the book as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2007, ranking it at number three. Ishmael Beah is a graduate of Oberlin College with a B.A. in Political Science and resides in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently completing a novel set in his home country of Sierra Leone.

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