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War Child
- A Child Soldier's Story
- Narrated by: Ademola Adeyemo
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 02-03-09
- Language: English
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $31.93
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Publisher's Summary
Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, and fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade. But, remarkably, Jal survived, and his life began to change when he was adopted by a British aid worker. He began the journey that would lead him to change his name and to music: recording and releasing his own album, which produced the number one hip-hop single in Kenya, and from there going on to perform with Moby, Bono, Peter Gabriel, and other international music stars.
Shocking, inspiring, and finally hopeful, War Child is a memoir by a unique young man, who is determined to tell his story and in so doing bring peace to his homeland.
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- Luis
- La Mesa, CA, USA
- 05-20-09
War Chilc
This was an informative, inspiring and excellent book to listen to, kept my interest the entire time and was very well written, i highly recommend it
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
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- Anthony Smith
- 03-13-18
Excellent
I looooove this book. I felt his emotion as I read it. Such Hope and courage it took to survive. Thank God for his life being spared so that his Light can shine on
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- Conner
- Washington, D.C.
- 09-24-17
Picked this book for a school assignment...don’t regret it at all
This book will pull you in and you will be shocked and happy with the story.
I picked this book off a reading list for a class I’m taking. I picked it as it was the shortest book, only 9 hours long, and I knew nothing of the topic. I had seen Blood Diamond and knew of child soldiers from Invisible Children but this book shows a different story of a child soldier. He was kidnapped and given a gun. This is a story of a boy who became a believer in the reason to fight before he was trained.
The first chapter tells how he learned of hate and used the hate when it came time to fight.
I could not recommended this book enough