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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.(When Invisible Children Sing)(Book review)
A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER
By Ismael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
WHEN INVISIBLE CHILDREN SING
By Dr. Chi Huang
Salt River, 2006
TWO NEW BOOKS about children in Africa and Central America couldn't be more different--one is a memoir of a boy soldier and the other of a medical doctor working with street children. One is about the deadly civil war in Sierra Leone, the other about the devastation of poverty and racism in Bolivia. Yet both books offer the same paradox: on one hand, these brown and Black kids are vulnerable orphans; on the other hand, they're treated as terrors by their communities. ...
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