Beah, Ishmael

Summary: "This is how wars are fought now: by children, traumatized, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer?...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2007

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Beah, Ishmael

Summary: "Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story. 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. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEA

Beah, Ishmael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEA

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