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Guantanamo Boy
by, Danielle Sherwood
October 13, 2011

Guantanamo Boy (Albert Whitman, 2011 reprint) is the story of a teenager in the wrong place at the wrong time in a dangerous political climate. It’s a story of closed ears, fearful eyes and silent mouths. A story in which the small kindnesses buried deep in the heart have the power to keep a person alive, like the power of a good book (a Reader’s… [Read More]

Filed Under: advocating peace, Anna Perera, book review, England, Guantanamo Bay, international Human Rights violations, Pakistan, Teen & YA fiction, torture, xenophobia
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