Ishmael Beah
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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Description
Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.