AK

AK

by PeterDickinson (Author)

Synopsis

Paul Kagomi's most precious possession is his AK - his gun. He is a warrior, a boy soldier, trained for a terrible war in the African bush. He doesn't remember his real parents. For him his father is Michael, who leads the guerrilla group, and his mother is the war. Peace comes - and Paul buries his gun and goes to school. But it does not last. Soldiers come to burn the school and kill the children, and Paul must flee through the bush to find his gun and then...Will it be war once more or is there another way?

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 04 May 2001

ISBN 10: 0330482041
ISBN 13: 9780330482042
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Prizes: Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Children's Book Category 1990. Shortlisted for Carnegie Medal 1999.

Author Bio
Peter Dickinson is one of the UK's most acclaimed children's writers. He has won the Carnegie Medal twice, for City of Gold and Tulku, the Whitbread Children's Award twice, for AK and Tulku, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award for The Blue Hawk. He is the author of many books for children, teenagers and adults, including The Kin, his first book for Macmillan, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Award in 1999. He was one of the three shortlisted candidates for the first Children's Laureate, alongside Anne Fine and Quentin Blake, and was shortlisted for the International Hans Christian Anderson Award in 2000. He lives in Hampshire.