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Hutton, Keely. SOLDIER BOY New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017 IL YA ISBN 9780374305635 |
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This is a life-changing book for
students to reflect on how fortunate we are to live in a
peaceful country. There are two stories running together
in this book. The first story is a fictitious one about a
teenage boy, Samuel, who has been rescued by Friends of
Orphans from his life as a boy soldier. He is helped in
his recovery by Ricky, who we discover was, himself, a boy
soldier. Ricky’s story is based on Ricky Richard Anywar’s
real-life story as a boy soldier for Joseph Kony’s brutal
rebel army fighting against Uganda’s government army in
the decades-long civil war. Although this story deals with
difficult subject matter, it is essentially the story of
how Ricky escapes the rebel army and uses his experience
as a boy soldier to help countless others with similar
backgrounds recover from their horrific experience. One
person can make a difference. (Prepared by: Marie Claire
Mottet, Byrnes Freshman Academy, marie.mottet@spart5.net for South
Carolina Book Award) |
| SUBJECTS: Anywar, Ricky Richard --
Childhood and youth -- Fiction. Soldiers -- Fiction. Uganda -- History -- 1979- -- Fiction. |
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