child soldiers

Describes the experiences of children kidnapped into service for the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, in which boys are required to complete brutal initiations--murdering their parents, friends, and relatives--and girls are forced into sexual slavery and labor.

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

Fifty-five years after the second Formic War, a small and mysterious orphan named Bean struggles to survive on the streets of Rotterdam with other vagabonds while using his tactical talents to stay alive.

Examines the plight of child soldiers who are used by government forces and other military groups around the world as combatants, spies, porters, human land-mine detectors, and sexual slaves; analyzes the lives of these boys and girls within armed groups; discusses the impacts of these experiences on their lives; and considers the issues of reintegration into normal society, and how to prevent the problem.

Presents the autobiography of the woman who survived years of exile from her home in Monrovia, Liberia and, upon her return to her war-torn country, became a radio celebrity who went into the ghettos to find and befriend former child soldiers as well as war-lords and record their stories in an attempt to achieve reconciliation and forgiveness.

A memoir of Emmanuel Jal's upbringing during the civil war in Sudan in the 1980s and conscription into the Christian Sudanese Liberation army as a child soldier, and covers his rescue and adoption by a British aid worker and success as a hip-hop recording artist and documentary film subject.

A memoir of Emmanuel Jal's upbringing during the civil war in Sudan in the 1980s and conscription into the Christian Sudanese Liberation army as a child soldier, and covers his rescue and adoption by a British aid worker and success as a hip-hop recording artist and documentary film subject.

Discusses the history of using children as soldiers around the world from 1940 to present day.

Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is discovered by guerrilla fighters after his mother and sisterescape and his father is brutally murdered, and is forced into becoming a soldier at the mercy of a treacherous terrorist leader.

Describes Uganda in the aftermath of the ongoing Civil War that has destroyed the country and in which children have been the main agents of that destruction. Because of the brutality wrought by the Lord's Resistance Army, adults fear not only child soldiers but all children.