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Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 248 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the life of world-class Ugandan runner Julius Achon, who was kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army as a twelve-year-old and forced into fighting and being a soldier, before escaping and discovering his talent for running.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvi, 211 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine. In Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution, Caroline Cox reconstructs the lives and stories of this young subset of early American soldiers, focusing on how these...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1860s, the United States is torn apart by Civil War. The conflict between the North and the South affects everyone, including many boys who want to join in the fight. Among them are young Edward Black, Lyston and Orion Howe, and Charles Moore. They're too young to fight in combat, but they show their courage by marching to battle as drummer boys. Like any other soldiers in the war, they risk being wounded, captured, or killed in action....