CitizenKid: Child Soldier : When Boys and Girls Are Used in War (Paperback)

from bucketofrhymes

This book recounting the author's experiences as a child soldier is brutal and so, so important to read. The graphic memoir format is, of course, highly visual, and I hope will allow the book to reach a wider audience. It's an important subject to read about, and this book could be very eye-openi...

from ElizaJane

The author's memoir of his early life in Congo and the time he was kidnapped by rebels to be trained as a child soldier. He speaks of the harsh realities of his young life, his escape, his stolen childhood that cannot ever be returned even after he's back home, and his eventual immigration to Can...

from nbmars

This Middle Grade graphic novel style memoir relates the horrific experiences of co-author Michel Chikwanine, who was kidnapped at age five in 1993 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a child soldier. His happy childhood was abruptly over. After he arrived at the rebel camp, ...

from amandacb

CHILD SOLDIER is a non-fiction graphic novel that deals with the physical and emotional aftereffects of being kidnapped and trained as a child soldier in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The story itself is horrifying: when Michel was five years old, he and a bunch of his friends were kidnap...

from jennybeast

An important and powerful book -- written with Michel Chikwanine and telling his story, of being abducted as a child and forced to become a soldier. While the subject is horrific, this book handles it with skill and grace, and a message that we all must join together to make this stop.