War Child: A Child Soldier's Story by Megan Lloyd Davies, Emmanuel Jal

War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

Megan Lloyd Davies, Emmanuel Jal

272 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan’s civil war moved closer—with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, ...

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