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082	1		_aLARP 92 BEA _2
100	1		_aBeah, Ishmael, 1980-
245	1	2	_aA long way gone _b: memoirs of a boy soldier _c/ Ishmael Beah
260			_aDetroit _b: Thorndike Press _c, c2007.
300			_a399 p. _b: map _c; 22 cm.
520			_aThis 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. Ishmael Beah, now 25 years old, tells how 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.--From publisher description.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	4	_aBeah, Ishmael, 1980-
650		4	_aChild soldiers _z-Sierra Leone _v--Biography
651		4	_aSierra Leone _x-History _y-Civil war, 1991 _x-Personal narratives
655		4	_aLarge type books
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999			_c266664 _d266664