Recommended Age:
18
+
Best for mature adult readers who engage with first-person accounts of war, child soldiers, and the long process of recovery from extreme trauma.
About the Book
A true account of a Sierra Leone boy who was recruited as a child soldier during his country's civil war and later rehabilitated by UNICEF.
Content Ratings
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Intense Themes
This memoir deals with the recruitment of child soldiers, war atrocities, drug addiction, trauma, and the long process of psychological recovery.
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High Violence
This book contains sustained depictions of combat, children committing acts of violence, drug use, and the psychological brutalization of war. The graphic violence makes this book appropriate for adults only.
Engagement:
Genre:
Biographies
Published:
2007
Page Count:
240
