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001			190850795
003			OCoLC
005			20220903153522.0
008			080116r20082007nyub 000 0aeng d
020			_a0374531269 (pbk.)
020			_a9780374531263 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)190850795
040			_aYDXCP _beng _erda _cYDXCP _dBAKER _dJBL _dIUI _dMTU
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050	0	4	_aDT516.828.B43 _bA3 2008
082	0	4	_a966.404 BEA _222
092			_aJ _b966.404, B365L
100	1		_aBeah, Ishmael, _d1980-
245	1	2	_aA long way gone : _bmemoirs of a boy soldier / _cIshmael Beah.
250			_aFirst paperback edition.
300			_a229 pages : _bmap ; _c21 cm
500			_a"Sarah Crichton books."
500			_aOriginally published in hardcover: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.
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.
600	1	0	_aBeah, Ishmael, _d1980-
650		0	_aChild soldiers _zSierra Leone _vBiography.
651		0	_aSierra Leone _xHistory _yCivil War, 1991-2002 _vPersonal narratives.
651		0	_aSierra Leone _xHistory _yCivil War, 1991-2002 _xParticipation, Juvenile.
651		0	_aSierra Leone _xSocial conditions _y1961-
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft
655		7	_aPersonal narratives. _2lcgft
942			_2ddc _cNON-FIC
999			_c60397 _d59067