Novel+Summary

This story is about a young boy who always enjoyed being with his family, then a war started and his whole life was torn upside down. The rebels cam to his home land and everyone of his family members went every which way. At first he went just with his older brother, Junior and his brothers firends. They encountered many different villages that helped them out in supplies and other things. They were almost taken by the rebels more than once. But with these close encounters they always escaped with no harm done to them. Then one time when the rebels had captured them Ishmael and his friends were all seperated in every direction. Ishmael met up with some old friends from school. They stayed together for a while and one time Ishmael had news that his family was alive and in the next town. When he arrived there though things were bad and rebels got there first and burned everything down including his family. He was very sad and angry. While he was in hiding from the rebels some soilders (the good guys) came and saved him, and soon Ishmael was recruted to be a soilder for his country. He witnessed many horrible things that no one should see, expecially a child. He was good at what he did though and became a junior lietenant. Soon the lietenant dropped him off with some nice people who took him and other boys in a UNICEF van. Ishmael was taken into a home where he had to have reabilation. He met many great people like the nurse who helped. Her name was Esther and they became great friends, and shared many great moments. Soon when Ishmael's reablitation was complete the institute found Ishmaels uncle and Ishmael lived with him for a while. A opertunity arrived in Ishmaels lap to go to New York city to talk about being a child soilder for the U.N. He made a great life from himself in the end with going back to school and even going to college to get his B.A in political sciences.