Edition |
1st ed., 2017. |
Description |
x, 326 p. ; 22 cm. |
Indexed In: |
School Library Journal starred, June 2017 |
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Booklist starred, April 2017 |
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Pub Weekly, May 2017 |
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Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2017 |
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Kirkus Review, April 2017 |
Summary |
Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based. |
Audience |
Young Adult Follett School Solutions. |
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860 Lexile. |
Subject |
Anywar, Ricky Richard -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
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Soldiers -- Fiction.
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Uganda -- History -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Hutton, Keely, author. Soldier boy First edition. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017 9780374305642 (DLC) 2017005178 |
ISBN |
9780374305635 |
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