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Son of a gun / Anne de Graaf.
Van Pelt Library PS3554.E11155 K5613 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Graaf, Anne, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Kind van de oorlog. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Liberia--History--Civil War, 1989-1996--Juvenile fiction.
- Liberia.
- Liberia--History--Civil War, 1989-1996--Fiction.
- Child soldiers--Fiction.
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- War stories.
- Realistic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 125 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2012.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Dutch.
- Summary:
- Eight-year-old Liberian Lucky, his ten-year-old sister Nopi, and their schoolmates are kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers, but even after they escape along with some other children and are reunited with their parents, their lives will never be the same. Includes chapter about Liberia.
- Notes:
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award Honor Book, 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780802854063
- 0802854060
- 1451756623
- 9781451756623
- OCLC:
- 744299211
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