Let's go swimming on doomsday
When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. In order to save the lives of those he loves, and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy within the militia's ranks and to send dispatches on their p...
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Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons,
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| 520 | |a When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. In order to save the lives of those he loves, and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy within the militia's ranks and to send dispatches on their plans to the Americans. The jihadists trust Abdi immediately because his older brother, Dahir, is already one of them, protégé to General Idris, aka the Butcher. If Abdi's duplicity is discovered, he will be killed. For weeks, Abdi trains with them, witnessing atrocity after atrocity, becoming a monster himself, wondering if he's even pretending anymore. He only escapes after he is forced into a suicide bomber's vest, which still leaves him stumps where two of his fingers used to be and his brother near death. Eventually, he finds himself on the streets of Sangui City, Kenya, stealing what he can find to get by, sleeping nights in empty alleyways, wondering what's become of the family that was stolen from him. But everything changes when Abdi's picked up for a petty theft, which sets into motion a chain reaction that forces him to reckon with a past he's been trying to forget. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Child soldiers |v Young adult fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Self-sacrifice |v Young adult fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Brothers |x Conduct of life |v Young adult fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Refugees |v Young adult fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Islamic fundamentalism |v Young adult fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Terrorism |v Young adult fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Somalia |v Young adult fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Kenya |v Young adult fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Spies |v Young adult fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Brothers |v Young adult fiction. | |
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