A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Beah, Ishmael
NAACP Outstanding Literary WorkAlex Award/HonorChristopher AwardYALSA Top TenQuill Book AwardsBiographies/AutobiographiesMisc./Other WarsChildren
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AR Book Level
6.1
AR Points
13
Word Count
80,413
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
112792 EN
About this book
A war survivor Africa recounts his transition from twelve-year-old orphan to killing machine. Beah emerged from Sierra Leone's malignant civil conflict and eventually graduated from college in the US. The text contains graphic violence.
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