Guantanamo Boy
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781453232552 (1453232559)
Publish date: September 13th 2011
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Teen,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Survival,
Realistic Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
War,
Contemporary,
Crime
You know what it is like to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Well that is exactly what happens to Khalid when he is mistaken for a terrorist and ends up in Guantanamo Bay prison at the age of 15. His family decides to go to Pakistan to visit relatives and while looking for his father, he co...
A chilling and harrowing story of a young victim of a profound injustice brought about by paranoia, prejudice, and an appalling disregard for human rights. This novel left me angry and disgusted. It should be widely read and discussed.
It took five chapters for me to get into it. I'd heard it was a "harrowing" tale and such and such, but all I was reading was a story of young man, a boy really, whose just like any other: Khalid loves his mother, follows his father and is not as aware of the goings-on as I'd have liked him to be. W...
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