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Never fall down: a boy soldier's story of survival

✍ Scribed by Patricia McCormick

Publisher: HarperCollins;Balzer + Bray
Year: 2012
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 91 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0062114425

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✦ Synopsis

This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide and labor camps of the Khmer Rouge.

When soldiers arrive in his hometown, Arn is just a normal little boy. But after the soldiers march the entire population into the countryside, his life is changed forever. Arn is separated from his family and assigned to a labor camp: working in the rice paddies under a blazing sun, he sees the other children dying before his eyes. One day, the soldiers ask if any of the kids can play an instrument. Arn's never played a note in his life, but he volunteers.

This decision will save his life, but it will also pull him into the very center of what we know today as the Killing Fields. And just as the country is about to be liberated, Arn is handed a gun and forced to become a soldier.

Based on the true story of Cambodian advocate Arn Chorn-Pond, and...

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