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  • Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
    Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood
    Robyn Scott
    Paperback: 03/31/2009
     
    A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric ...
  • A Long Way Gone
    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    Ishmael Beah
    Paperback: 08/05/2008
     
    The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he ...
  • Oh The Glory Of It All
    Oh The Glory Of It All
    Sean Wilsey
    Paperback: 04/25/2006
     
    "In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess." ...
  • Slave
    Slave: My True Story
    Damien Lewis, Mende Nazer
    Paperback: 06/13/2005
     
    A shocking true story of contemporary slavery: a young girl, snatched from her tribal village in Africa, ...
  • The Unwanted
    The Unwanted
    Kien Nguyen
    Paperback: 04/01/2002
     
    The biography of an Amerasian child in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. A wonderful book - highly ...

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