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• Annotation:
• Based on accounts from child soldiers, this work of fiction depicts Jacob, a 14-year-old Ugandan who is sent away to a boys' school. He is confident that he and his friends will be safe in the guarded school but they are abducted in the night by the Lord's Resistance Army. Thrown into a brutal war and facing the unthinkable, Jacob and his friends must survive and learn to live with their experiences.
• Creator:
• Illustrator - Daniel Lafrance
• Publication Information:
• Annick Press, Toronto, Canada, 2013
• Color or Black & White:
• Genre:
• Historical Fiction
• Bibliography Available:
• No
• Original Language
• English
• Historical Topic/Event
• Uganda--Lord''s Resistance Army
• Geographic Setting:
• Uganda
• Date Range:
• 2002 - 2012
• Tags:
• Child soldiers, kidnapping, Uganda, Lord's Resistance Army, abduction, war, Joseph Kony
• Notes:
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