A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. Imagine that you are twelve-years-old enjoying hanging out with your friends learning to rap and dance when the village where you all live is attacked by rebels. You see people you know brutally killed and are separated from family. It is a matter of day to day survival for you and your friends until you become apart of the army and it is your life or theirs. Then all at once you are sent with some other boys to a school to become prepared to go back to a regular life. Is it possible? Did any of your family survive? Is the fighting away for good or will it come back?  This is a tough read to realize this really happened and how luck saved Ismael.
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