A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African
Year Published 2007
Word Count 80,413
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 920L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 112792, 13 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Sierra Leone--Social conditions--1961-
- Beah, Ishmael, 1980-
- Sierra Leone--History--Civil War, 1991-2002--Participation, Juvenile
- Sierra Leone
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- History | Africa | West
- History
- 1961-
- Participation, Juvenile
- Civil War, 1991-2002
- Social conditions
- Beah, Ishmael
- Child soldiers
- Child soldiers--Sierra Leone--Biography
- Biography / Autobiography
- Sierra Leone--History--Civil War, 1991-2002--Personal narratives
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- Growing Up Brave on the Margins
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Selection, 2008
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