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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chip shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken: he was once a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.