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Gr 9 Up—In this devastatingly realistic graphic novel, 14-year-old Jacob and his friends are just starting school at George Jones Seminary for Boys. The story tells of their subsequent kidnapping and near induction into the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Complete innocents at first, the boys endure near starvation, grueling conditions, and physical violence as they travel out of northern Uganda and into Sudan. Many of their experiences are difficult to read, i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

McKay and Lafrance's graphic-novel reworking of McKay's 2008 novel tells in vivid and harrowing detail the story of children abducted to become soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. In 2002, young Jacob was kidnapped and began a long journey into the heart of darkness, one that fleshes out the meaning of the volume's epigraph: "In each of us there is the possibility to be a beast, but also the possibility to reach the stars" [Eleanor Roosevelt]. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More