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Book Review of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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Helpful Score: 2


Poignant, direct, and powerful first-hand account of the modern-day tragedy of child soldiers. The brutality is mind-numbing, the restoration genuinely astonishing. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Told in a disarmingly simple narrative, this should be mandatory reading for every American high-school student.