Description Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-year-old Somali refugee must confront his painful past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and redemption for fans of A Long Way Gone and What is the What When Abdi\'s family is kidnapped, he\'s forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab.
She was selected as the 2014-2015 Associates of the Boston Public Library Children\'s Writer-in-Residence, where she wrote.
She has spent the last decade working with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the United Nations on refugee relief and development, mainly in Africa.
Anderson is an American writer and international development professional living in Geneva, Switzerland.
About the author Natalie C.
Anderson delivers another tour-de-force that will leave readers at the edge of their seats.
In this riveting, unflinching tale of sacrifice and hope, critically-acclaimed author Natalie C.
But everything changes when Abdi\'s picked up for a petty theft, which sets into motion a chain reaction that forces him to reckon with a past he\'s been trying to forget.
Eventually, he finds himself on the streets of Sangui City, Kenya, stealing what he can find to get by, sleeping nights in empty alleyways, wondering what\'s become of the family that was stolen from him.
He only escapes after he is forced into a suicide bomber\'s vest, which still leaves him stumps where two of his fingers used to be and his brother near death.
For weeks, Abdi trains with them, witnessing atrocity after atrocity, becoming a monster himself, wondering if he\'s even pretending anymore.
If Abdi\'s duplicity is discovered, he will be killed.
The jihadists trust Abdi immediately because his older brother, Dahir, is already one of them, prot g to General Idris, aka the Butcher.
In order to save the lives of those he loves, and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy within the militia\'s ranks and to send dispatches on their plans to the Americans.
Description Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-year-old Somali refugee must confront his painful past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and redemption for fans of A Long Way Gone and What is the What When Abdi\'s family is kidnapped, he\'s forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab
