children and war

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children and war

First kill your family

child soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
2009
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.

Fran's war

1999
The author, having led thirty convoys of food, medicine, and other supplies into Bosnia between 1992 and 1996, writes a fictionalized account of the tragedy of the war as seen through the eyes of a child.

Children of war

1983
Records the sentiments of children in the present war zones of the world. Based on a "Time" magazine cover story.

Heroes of the Holocaust

true stories of rescues by teens
2005

Lost boys of Sudan

2004
Follows two teenage Sudanese refugees in the United States. The boys grapple with stark cultural differences as they come to understand both the abundance and the alienation of American life.

Zlata's diary

a child's life in Sarajevo
1995
The diary of a thirteen-year-old girl living in Sarajevo, begun just before her eleventh birthday when there was still peace in her homeland.

Growing up in World War II, 1941-1945

2003
Presents the stories of people who were children and teenagers during World War II in which they describe what it was like to live in the United States during the war years, from 1941 to 1945.

Zlata's diary

a child's life in Sarajevo
2006
The diary of a thirteen-year-old girl living in Sarajevo, begun just before her eleventh birthday when there was still peace in her homeland.

Making it home

real-life stories from children forced to flee
2005
Presents a collection of first-hand accounts of children who have been forced to flee their war-torn homeland to become refugees, including stories from kids from Kosovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, and more.

Kids of Kabul

living bravely through a never-ending war
2012
Examines the lives of children living in Kabul, featuring boys and girls ages ten to seventeen discussing their lives in a country at war.

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