Author(s): Anna Perera
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 339
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Language: English
Date Published: 2011-07-01
Dimensions: 134.62 x 203.2 x 35.56mm
Publication City/Country: Chicago, IL, United States
Edition: Reprint
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Innocent until proven guilty? Not here you're not. Robbed of his childhood, this is one boy's fictional experience of the supposed war on terror. Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from England, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when most boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him.