AK
A former child soldier tries to learn the ways of peace in an African nation in this rip-roaring adventure story by a Carnegie Medal winner (Publishers Weekly). Paul remembers nothing from before the conflict. Twelve years old, he is no longer a child. He is a warrior-one of a handful of elite commandos who live only to fight the corrupt government of Nagala. He has no family but the boys who fight beside him, and he owns nothing but his AK-47 rifle. This is the only life he has ever known, and it is one he understands-right until the day the standoff ends and his life changes forever. Paul buries his AK and heads north to attend school and…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5040-1489-2
- EAN: 9781504014892
- Produktnummer: 18191813
- Verlag: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 204 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.0 cm 235 g
- Gewicht: 235
- Sonstiges: Ab 12 - 16 J.
Über den Autor
Peter Dickinson was born in Africa but raised and educated in England. From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff of Punch, and since then earned his living writing fiction of various kinds for children and adults. His books have been published in several languages throughout the world. The author of twenty-one crime and mystery novels for adults, Dickinson was the first to win the Gold Dagger Award of the Crime Writers' Association for two books running: The Glass-Sided Ants Nest (1968) and The Old English Peepshow (1969). Dickinson was shortlisted nine times for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for children's literature and was the first author to win it twice. Dickinson served as chairman of the Society of Authors and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2009 for services to literature. Peter Dickinson died on December 16, 2015, at the age of eighty-eight.
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