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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

By: Ishmael Beah
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (2007) is the story of a boy growing up during a civil war in Sierra Leone. Beah takes the reader through his personal journey of sadness, frustration, agony, revenge, deceit, relief, and happiness. Beah’s village is attacked by rebel forces during the war.