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by Peter Dickinson

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pp. 204 . Papeback. New.
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  • Title AK
  • Author Peter Dickinson
  • Binding Papeback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 204
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
  • Publication date pp. 204
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6372518053
  • ISBN 9781504014892 / 1504014898
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 0.47 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 1.19 cm)
  • Age range 12 to 16 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 11
  • Reading level 970
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Topical: Teen
  • Category Young Adult Fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 4

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From the publisher

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 attempt to live life as just another child. But at night, the battlefield consumes his dreams. When a rogue faction stages a coup in the capital and Paul's adoptive father is put in prison, the boy turns into a warrior once more. It is too late for him to have a childhood, but Paul will do whatever it takes to guarantee himself a future.

From the author Philip Pullman called "one of the real masters of children's literature," this is an extraordinary novel for readers of all ages, a winner of the prestigious Whitbread Award in which "Dickinson deals intelligently with vital issues, devises potent symbols with his usual skill, and offers much to discuss in a vivid and compelling setting" (Kirkus Reviews).

About the author

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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