Guantanamo Boy

Anna Perera (author)

Children's, Teenage & Young Adult | Paperback Published on: 05/02/2009

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Thought provoking

A very good read that i wished sold better in my shop than it does. Maybe because 2nd World War fiction has been done a lot and people know about it so wil... READ MORE

Carol Ann Noble at Carlisle

Horrifically briliiant

I have to warn that when I was reading this story I felt slightly sick at the horrors that the young prisoners had to endure in Guantanamo Bay. Whilst the ... READ MORE

Yasmine Abusahmen at Waterstones Worcester Hi

Synopsis

Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man.

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
ISBN: 9780141326078
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 245g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm