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  A Long Way Gone

  Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

  by Ishmael Beah

  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.... (more)
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  Bamboo People

  by Mitali Perkins

  Junior Library Guild Selection Summer 2010 Indie Next Pick Bang! A side door bursts open. Soldiers pour into the room. They're shouting and waving rifles. I shield my head with my arms. It was a lie! I think, my mind racing. Girls and boys alike are screaming. The soldiers prod and herd some of us together and push the rest apart as if we're cows or goats. Their leader, though, is a middle-aged man. He's... (more)
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  Beasts of No Nation

  by Uzodinma Iweala

  In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict... (more)
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  Chanda's Wars

  by Allan Stratton

  She promised her mama she'd keep them safe. It's been six months since Mama died, and Chanda is struggling to raise her little brother and sister. Determined to end a family feud, she takes them to her relatives' remote rural village. But across the nearby border, a brutal civil war is spreading. Rebels led by the ruthless General Mandiki attack at night, stealing children. All that separates Chanda from... (more)
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  The Drowned Cities

  by Paolo Bacigalupi

  In this exhilarating companion to Printz Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ship Breaker , Paolo Bacigalupi brilliantly captures a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, driven by demagogues who recruit children to become soulless killing machines. Two refugees of these wars, Mahlia and Mouse, are known as "war maggots": survivors who have barely managed to escape the... (more)
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  War Brothers

  by Sharon E. McKay

  A heart-wrenching Ugandan story about Jacob, Norman, Paul, Tony, Hannah and Oteka, children who have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to march, fight and kill as child soldiers. It is also a story of hope, bravery, loyalty and friendship.
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  War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

  by Emmanuel Jal

  In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan’s civil war moved closer—with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resources—Jal’s family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, on one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his... (more)
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  They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children

  The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

  by Romeo Dallaire

  In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that requires negligible technology, is simple to sustain, has unlimited versatility and incredible capacity for both loyalty and barbarism. In fact, there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war-machines. What are these cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated and expendable weapons? Children. Roméo... (more)
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  Song for Night

  by Christopher Abani

  Part Inferno , part Paradise Lost , and part Sunjiata epic , Song for Night is the story of a West African boy soldier's lyrical, terrifying, yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon. The reader is led by the voiceless protagonist who, as part of a land mine-clearing platoon, had his vocal chords cut; a move to keep these children from... (more)
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  Running for My Life

  One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games

  by Lopez Lomong, Mark Tabb

  The inspiring true story of Lopez Lomong, a Sudanese "lost boy" who achieved his dream of becoming an American citizen and Olympic athlete. He was abducted. He was beaten. And he was nearly forced to become a boy solider in his war-torn homeland, Sudan. But he escaped in the night, ran three days, and was taken into a refugee camp in Kenya. He never owned a pair of shoes. He never owned a pen or paper and did... (more)
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  First Kill Your Family

  Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army

  by Peter H. Eichstaedt

  “Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls.  He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group that has terrorized northern Uganda for twenty years. The memory racks Richard’s slender body as he wipes away... (more)
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  The Ender Quartet: Book 1

  Ender's Game

  by Orson Scott Card

  In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make... (more)
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  Not for Sale

  The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It

  by David B. Batstone

  Award-winning journalist David Batstone reveals the story of a new generation of 21st century abolitionists and their heroic campaign to put an end to human bondage. In his accessible and inspiring book, Batstone carefully weaves the narratives of activists and those in bondage in a way that not only raises awareness of the modern-day slave trade, but also serves as a call to action. With 2007 bringing the... (more)
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  Children at War

  by P. W. Singer

  From U.S. soldiers having to fight children in Afghanistan and Iraq to juvenile terrorists in Sri Lanka to Palestine, the new, younger face of battle is a terrible reality of 21st century warfare. Indeed, the very first American soldier killed by hostile fire in the "War on Terrorism" was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy. Children at War is the first comprehensive examination of a disturbing and escalating... (more)
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  Shattered

  Stories of Children and War

  by Jennifer Armstrong

  As bullets ring and bombs are dropped, children watch—mostly from the sidelines, but occasionally in the direct line of fire. Unaware of the political issues or power struggles behind the battle, all they know are the human, emotional consequences of this thing called war. This collection examines all of war’s implications for young people—from those caught in the line of fire to the children of the veterans of... (more)
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  And Still Peace Did Not Come

  A Memoir of Reconciliation

  by Agnes Kamara-Umunna

  When bullets hit Agnes Kamara-Umunna's home in Monrovia, Liberia, she and her father hastily piled whatever they could carry into their car and drove toward the border, along with thousands of others. An army of children was approaching, under the leadership of Charles Taylor. It seemed like the end of the world. Slowly, they made their way to the safety of Sierra Leone. They were the lucky ones. After... (more)
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  Children no more

  by Mark L. Van Name

  Military SF with an adventurous flourish – Mark Van Name notches a thoughtful and hard-hitting #4 entry in his Jon and Lobo saga. Jon Moore:  nanotech-enhanced, fight-weary soldier-of-fortune.  Assault vehicle Lobo: formerly scrap-heaped A.I.-equipped intelligence and weapons platform (spaceship-sized!) of enormous destructive potential.  Hard lessons have forged their friendship into a powerful alliance. Now... (more)
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  A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

  by Ishmael Beah

  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.... (more)
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  Overcoming Speechlessness

  A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

  by Alice Walker

  “<Alice Walker> has transcended expectations in her response to September 11. Sent by Earth . . . is simple, practical, and beyond argument.”— The New Yorker , on Sent by Earth “There is only one daughter, one father, one mother, one son, one aunt or uncle, one dog . . . or goat in the Universe, after all: the one right in front of you.”—From Overcoming Speechlessness In 2006 Alice Walker, working... (more)
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  The Smoke Jumper

  by Nicholas Evans

  In a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honor, the acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Horse Whisperer gives his millions of readers another hero... The Smoke Jumper His name is Connor Ford and he falls like an angel of mercy from the sky, braving the flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. For Julia Bishop is the partner of his best friend and fellow... (more)