Humphreys, Jessica Dee
Summary: Recounts the experiences of Michel Chikwanine, who at age five was abducted during a schoolyard soccer game and forced to become a child soldier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 HUMDuany, Ger
Summary: The amazing autobiography of a young Sudanese boy who went from a child soldier to an international peace activist, a struggling refugee to a Hollywood actor. Sudan, 1980s: Ger Duany knew what he wanted out of life--make his family proud, play with his brothers and sisters, maybe get an education like his brother Oder suggested, and become a soldier for his people when he's old enough. But then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DUAPak, Greg
Summary: "After a mysterious attack devastates a great swath of 19th century Japan, Korea, and China, survivors from all three lands find refuge on a hidden island and build a new society. Hana, the orphaned daughter of Korean farmers, and Kenichi, son of a great samurai leader, have little in common except for a mutual disdain for the other. But these young warriors will have to work together when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RONPak, Greg
Summary: "Hana and Kenichi have been separated, forced to find their own ways back to the Island. Kenichi, cast out in exile, must learn to survive the wilderness on his own without the support his noble upbringing previously provided. Hana must also survive a dangerous foreign environment, as she travels alongside the Shogun's caravan back towards the Island and contends with the cutthroat political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RONSummary: Mikazuki Augus and fellow child soldiers--now known as Tekkadan--continue their revolt against Gjallarhorn as their fight reaches the Earth Sphere.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation Productions 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME MOBBrant, John
Summary: Julius Achon is the director of the Achon Uganda Children's Fund, a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life in rural Uganda. He was captured at 12 and turned into a boy soldier; then miraculously found a career as one of the world's foremost middle-distance runners. How these life jumps happened is told here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ACHON, JULIUS BRASummary: The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEAPak, Greg
Summary: "THE FINAL BATTLE FOR THE ISLAND IS HERE: Hana and Kenichi finally return to the island seeking refuge with their new travel companions, but are denied entry by Elder Jin and the Islanders who fear the newly mutated byonin. Caught between the Island's defenses, the Shogun's oncoming forces, and the deadly new byonin, Hana and Kenichi must rally their own troops and make one final stand to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RONSummary: A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARSummary: In the year P.D. 323, three centuries after the Calamity War in a world controlled by the military organization Gjallarhorn, child soldiers on Mars rise up in revolt and one of their number, Mikazuki Augus, becomes the pilot of the Calamity War-era ship, Gundam Barbatos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation Productions 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME MOBQuinn, Katherine.
Summary: "Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It's only when he sees her--a young woman with wild, amber eyes who's as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves--that he feels the warmth of life in his blood. The other Knights may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entagled Teen 2023
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABrom
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Nick would be lying dead in a Brooklyn park--murdered by drug dealers--had Peter not sprung out of the trees to save him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him into a strange and unsettling mist swirling around the bay. Even though he is wary of Peter's crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, nowhere in New York City is safe for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EOS 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROJal, Emmanuel.
Summary: In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven-year-old Sudanese boy, living in a small village. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer, his family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 962.404 JAL, EMMANUEL JALRonald, D. A. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2745 RONZadoff, Allen
Summary: After breaking free of The Program, Boy Nobody is on a mission of his own to reclaim his life and rescue his friend Howard from the secret organization that has turned him and other orphaned children into trained assassins--but he has no idea who, if anyone, he can trust, or what the consequences will be if he succeeds in bringing down The Program.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZADVan Name, Mark L.
Summary: After they hear of a group of children pressed into service by rebels on another planet, Jon Moore and his hyper-intelligent assault vehicle, Lobo, spring into action, confronting not only the horrors the children are facing, but also a dark chapter fromJon's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANSummary: As Chava nears his twelfth birthday, he and his mother struggle to avoid his conscription in the El Salvadoran army during the civil war of the nineteen eighties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lightyear Entertainment 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 966.404 BEACard, Orson Scott.
Summary: "Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean who became Ender's right hand, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean's past was a battle just to survive. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starscape 2000
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARSendker, Jan-Philipp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sendker 2014Summary: Sam Childers is a drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing spiritual transformation and makes a life-changing decision to travel to war-torn East Africa. After witnessing unspeakable horrors faced by innocent children, he vows to save them at any cost, including his own safety. Childers begins waging a relentless battle against the territory's renegade militia, leading harrowing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAC RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MaAbani, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2007