| Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Contributor(s): Beah, Ishmael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374105235 ISBN-13: 9780374105235 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2007 Annotation: Unforgettable testimony that Africa's children . . . have eyes to see and voices to tell what has happened. And what voices! . . . No outsider could have written this book, and it's hard to imagine that many insiders could do so with such acute vision, stark language, and tenderness. It is a heart-rending achievement. -Melissa Fay Greene, "Elle." |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Africa - West - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2006017101 |
| Lexile Measure: 920(Not Available) |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.9" W x 8.56" L (0.79 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1990's - Cultural Region - West Africa - Catalog Heading - Biographies - Curriculum Strand - Biographies |
| Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Maps, Price on Product |
| Awards: New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award, Winner, Nonfiction, 2007 Christopher Awards, Winner, Books for Adults, 2008 Tayshas Reading, Commended, Young Adult, 2008 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Recommended, Fourteen and Up, 2008 Alex Awards, Winner, Adult/For Young Adults, 2008 Quill Awards, Nominee, Biography/Memoir, 2007 Quill Awards, Nominee, Debut Author, 2007 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award, Nominee, Grades 9-12, 2009 Grand Canyon Reader Award, Recommended, Teen, 2010 Delaware Diamonds Award, Nominee, High School, 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize, Finalist, Current Interest, 2007 |
| Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/15/2006 pg. 48 Publishers Weekly 12/18/2006 pg. 55 Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2007 pg. 58 Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2007 pg. 549 - Recommended - Readable Time 02/12/2007 pg. 64 People Weekly 02/19/2007 pg. 53 New Yorker (The) 02/12/2007 pg. 85 Entertainment Weekly 02/15/2007 pg. 82 New York Times 02/25/2007 pg. 12 Kirkus Best Books 03/01/2007 pg. 3 School Library Journal 04/01/2007 pg. 171 Library Journal 03/01/2007 pg. 91 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2007 pg. 359 - Recommended Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2007 pg. 32 NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2007 pg. 13 Time 12/24/2007 pg. 74 SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2007 pg. 41 People Weekly 12/31/2007 pg. 58 Multicultural Review 12/01/2007 pg. 62 Voya Top Ten Bks for Y/A 04/01/2008 pg. 7 ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2008 pg. 1 Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 72 Library Journal 01/01/2016 pg. 47 |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 112792 Reading Level: 6.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 13.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how 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. My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.Why did you leave Sierra Leone? Because there is a war. You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other? Yes, all the time. Cool. I smile a little. You should tell us about it sometime. Yes, sometime. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beah, Ishmael: - Ishmael Beah, born in 1980 in Sierra Leone, West Africa, is the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. The book has been published in over thirty languages and was nominated for a Quill Award in 2007. Time magazine named the book as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2007, ranking it at number three. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vespertine Press, LIT, Parabola, and numerous academic journals. He is a UNICEF Ambassador and Advocate for Children Affected by War; a member of the Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Advisory Committee; an advisory board member at the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; visiting scholar at the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University; visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights at Rutgers University; cofounder of the Network of Young People Affected by War (NYPAW); and president of the Ishmael Beah Foundation. He has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and many panels on the effects of war on children. He is a graduate of Oberlin College with a B.A. in Political Science and resides in Brooklyn, New York. |
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