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Original Title:	A Long Way Gone. Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
ISBN:	0374105235 (ISBN13: 9780374105235)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.macmillan.com/alongwaygone/IshmaelBeah
Characters:	Ishmael Beah, Musa, Esther, "Junior" Beah, Talloi, Kanei, Alhaji, Jumah, Moriba, Saidu, Khalilou
Setting:	Sierra Leone New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	ALA Alex Award (2008), Lincoln Award Nominee (2010), NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2007), Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award Nominee (2008)

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Hardcover | Pages: 229 pages

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The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah 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 became a soldier.

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.
“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”
“Because there is a war.”
“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”
“Yes, all the time.”
“Cool.”
I smile a little.
“You should tell us about it sometime.”
“Yes, sometime.”

This 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. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.

What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? 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.

In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: 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.

This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

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Title	:	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Author	:	Ishmael Beah
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 229 pages
Published	:	February 13th 2007 by Sarah Crichton Books
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Cultural. Africa. Biography. War

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Another tragic, eye-opening read. Chronicles Beah's childhood/teenage years in Sierra Leone.

A glimpse into the world of the child soldier. For two years as a young teenager, the author was forcibly recruited into a Sierra Leonean rebel army which exploited children for use as soldiers. Under age, under equipped and under trained, placed into situations young teenagers should never be placed into, their lives were frequently cut short. Those that survived this brutal and violent universe live with the trauma for the rest of their lives. This important memoir shows the appalling depths

The review for this one is a toss-up between one and five stars. It was an amazing story of how a twelve-year-old boy survived the armed conflicts in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. It's well-written, provides vivid imagery, and evokes the horrors of war.The one star is because of the vivid imagery. Let's be perfectly clear about this: people die in this book. Blood spatters everywhere, usually blood that should be kept inside some of the narrator's closest friends. From the very first page to the

This book is the subject of my final project for Human Development psych class, and as such I will be updating the review at a later date. While this story is an important one, for me the book did not go deep inside the issue enough to make any real impact. I had known about child soldiers before, and I expected to read more about the psychological impact, et cetera. I may be too hard on this, because I do not read biographies often, and whenever I read biographies from Africa, I tend to compare

4.5 StarsTW: Violence/gore, rape, drug abuseThis book reminded me of Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys, not because their subject matter is anything alike, but because I had the same reaction to both books. Throughout the duration of the book it was very impactful and heavy, and I may have shed a tear or two, but as soon as I closed the book the weight of it just fell upon me and it made me start crying in full. Wow. This book is truly unlike anything I've read before. I can't even fathom

"If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen."This is an amazing memoir about a child soldier in Sierra Leone. In 1993, when Ishmael was 12, rebels attacked his village and he fled, never to see his parents again. After weeks of walking and scrounging for food, he was picked up by the government military, given an AK-47 and was trained how to fight. The boys were given drugs, including cocaine and amphetamines, and sent into battle. Ishmael spent years fighting