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Guantanamo Boy

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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...more

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Published July 1st 2011 by Albert Whitman & Company (first published January 1st 2009)

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Sep 03, 2011 Beverly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: 14-16 year olds

Recommended to Beverly by: indiebound.org/next list

Shelves: outstanding-young-adult-books

Guantanamo Boy is a terrifyingly realistic novel. Khalid Ahmed, 15, was born in England. He only speaks English, rarely goes to mosque, never prays, never reads the Quran and dreams of playing professional soccer. When his parents decide to go to Pakistan to visit relatives, Ahmed is upset that he will not be spending his vacation partying with his friends. Khalid's idea of roughing it is going one day without getting on the computer. He is mortified his father wants to take the family to a thir...more

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Mar 25, 2011 Nikki rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary

This is a book I would never normally read. Luckily the bright orange cover sparked my interest enough to pick it up. When reading this author's note, "Although 'Guantanamo boy' is a work of fiction, it is inspired by real events", I bought it.

I found Khalid's story extremely eye opening and thought provoking. There was no holding back in regards to the acts of torture, the injustices and lack of basic human rights. I was horrified by it.

This book will hopefully make those of us who like to bur...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Komera Murchie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was a heart-wrenching novel which opens your eyes to how many injustices are done every single day. Yes we all know about innocents who get put into prison but we don't really hear about people being wrongly sent to Guantanamo Bay. We hear about those who are in the wrong place at the wrong time but not so much about those who get arrested/kidnapped for being a certain race. This is what this book is about.

Khalid is just a young innocent boy whose biggest mistake was playing a computer game...more

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Oct 13, 2012 Jill rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

Read this in almost one sitting while on a long plane ride. Riveting telling of the tortures and humiliations suffered by an innocent teenager as "collateral damage" in this short-sighted "war on terror." At one point I was so engaged that if I hadn't been on a plane, I would have been on the phone to my congressman, demanding that something be done.

Unfortunately the ending is a bit too moralistic. It upsets me when authors seem to feel they have to spell out "The Meaning". Is this because it i...more

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Sep 16, 2012 Ken Kugler rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Guantanamo Boy, by Anna Perez, is a stunning novel that is so gripping I had trouble putting it down the first night I was reading it. I would like to make it a required reading for everyone who judges people by what they are and not who they are.
Khalid, 15, is actually a very normal, typical teenager in a town called Rochdale, in England. Not a terrible student but not the best one either. He gets into trouble with his mates (buddies) but not anything that is anything other than teens being tee...more

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Apr 12, 2012 Hashi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The feeling of this book was way different to anything I've read before. Like you could feel everything Khalid was feeling, even the parts where his brain is going everywhere and seems to be loosing it. You even get that feeling he gets when he's about to land back in England and like the old familierness and kind of like cumfort. It's really nice. All throught the book you get how he's being effected like at first it's kind of like self pity and anger and disbelief but as the story goes on you...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-for-esl-teachers

I came across this book as part of my pursuit to find young adult novels with characters whose lives stories may slightly coincide with the lives of my students. I was excited to find a book with a teenage character whose family is from Pakistan. I'm happy the book was written and understand why the author felt such passion about the topic. At the same time, I'd be hesitant to give this book to my immigrant students. The author obviously had many messages. Though there were parts about how we sh...more

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Feb 18, 2012 Maggie Desmond-O'Brien rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I came into this book fully prepared for loving and was left disappointed. I do not take kindly to be disappointed. So I'm sorry if my bitterness shines through.

We start in the UK, where every effort is made to portray Khalid as an ordinary boy, with ordinary friends, who likes to play not-so-ordinary video games. Very elaborate misunderstandings with certain governments ensue, and already the reader is a little dazed by the backstory Perera throws at them. There are endless prison transfers and...more

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Aug 19, 2011 Barbara rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ncbla

It's hard for me to say that I love this book because it describes horrors, cruelties, and civil rights violations that are almost impossible to imagine in today's world. But they did happen, especially back in the early months after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York back in 2001. As I read it, I couldn't help wondering what it would take to survive and heal from being kidnapped at the age of 15 and then tortured in order to force out a confession. In the case of Khalid Ahmed, he...more

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Feb 07, 2011 Nesa Sivagnanam rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Some things should never happen, but they do. Some things are too terrible to ever be forgotten. Some things demand that we stand together as humans in a fight to ensure they never happen again. Some things need to be written about so we never forget how terrible they are. Guantanamo Boy tells the tale of just such a thing.

Khalid is a 15-year-old from Rochdale spends his time doing what most boys his age do. He plays computer games and spends time with his friends. He also wishes that he was bra...more Some things should never happen, but they do. Some things are too terrible to ever be forgotten. Some things demand that we stand together as humans in a fight to ensure they never happen again. Some things need to be written about so we never forget how terrible they are. Guantanamo Boy tells the tale of just such a thing.

Khalid is a 15-year-old from Rochdale spends his time doing what most boys his age do. He plays computer games and spends time with his friends. He also wishes that he was brave enough to tell Niamh that he cares about her.

He isn’t too excited about going to visit his family in Pakistan, but his mom and dad want him to come with them. So he goes. Khalid’s life turns into a nightmare when he is kidnapped from his aunt’s house and ends up being held for two years, without being charged, in the world’s most notorious prison – Guantanamo Bay.

The bulk of the book details the hell of the days, weeks and months of Khalid’s life that pass by in Guantánamo – the isolation; the head-shaving; the shackles; the endless interrogations; the “terrifying screams” from the other end of the building; screams of Khalid’s own.

There are also tiny instances of humanity lighten Khalid’s life in Guantánamo – a prison guard who gives him a piece of chocolate; the arrival of a yellowing copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, which Khalid devours over and over again; a sudden glimpse of blue sky from the exercise yard – and the ending offers a glimmer of hope for the future.

As Perera says in an interview with The Guardian, “Children want the truth to be told but not in a preachy way. When they’re presented with loads of facts they switch off – we all do. It’s only through stories that we understand issues that are sometimes difficult to comprehend. To me, all books are devices that help people understand the world that they live in, appreciate it, and ponder their own existence. What I hope is that teenagers will see the similarities between themselves and issues that are on the news every day.”(less)

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May 26, 2010 Fiona rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I am not usually very interested in realistic tales of hardship.

Reading through someone's struggle doesn't fascinate me, my misery memoirs reading started and ended with Dave Pelzer's 'A Boy Called It' trilogy.

I wasn't looking forward to reading this, but it's on the Lancashire Children's Book Award shortlist, so I read it for uni.

It scattered my expectations. Even now I keep being surprised at how it completely took me by surprise. Perera does a rare thing with this beautiful book, which I feel...more I am not usually very interested in realistic tales of hardship.

Reading through someone's struggle doesn't fascinate me, my misery memoirs reading started and ended with Dave Pelzer's 'A Boy Called It' trilogy.

I wasn't looking forward to reading this, but it's on the Lancashire Children's Book Award shortlist, so I read it for uni.

It scattered my expectations. Even now I keep being surprised at how it completely took me by surprise. Perera does a rare thing with this beautiful book, which I feel deserves a subtler, gentler cover.

Khalid, the protagonist, is drawn with love. He is a thoughtful, impulsive, likeable teenage boy; he cares about his dad, occasionally messes up at school, cheerfully admits to himself that he's rubbish at football. He struggles to unite his family's traditions with his settled, Western life, but no more than any teenager strains against the confines of their parents' expectations.

Khalid's experience of interrogation, isolation, and the withholding of basic human rights isn't immediately distressing. Perera has written with great skill and care here, making the book appropriate for younger readers, but not flinching from what Guantanamo is, and does. There were moments when I caught my breath: the men, ashamed of their nakedness, crying as they shower. Khalid screaming his cousin's name, poring over books for the release they give him. Dreaming of what he will do with his freedom; little dreams, but so distant for him.

Although it's undoubtedly going to teach most readers a lot about the horror of secret prisons and obtaining evidence by torture, Guantanamo Boy doesn't feel preachy. There's a wonderful lightness of touch, and a real generosity that makes Khalid a genuinely likeable young man. It was hard to move away from this book, and hard to accept that it is a work of fiction. Khalid's anger, his despair, his madness, are all perfectly written, and the sense of time wasted, of youth blown away, is achingly sad. Best of all are Khalid's clumsily eloquent words at the end, trying to describe two years of teenage life lost. A brilliant, difficult, thoughtful and incredibly skilled story.(less)

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May 01, 2010 Polly Todd rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: teenagers

Recommended to Polly by: Lancashire Book of the Year

Disturbing and moving in equal measure, I found this book incredibly thought provoking.
Probably not suitable for pre-teen or very sensitive readers, but this is definitely one to stimulate debate and get everyone thinking. Issues of race, religion and adolescence are all addressed in this text.

The story follows Khalid, who finds himself "involved" in the terrorist arrests in the middle east, just before the second Iraq conflict. The portrayal of his treatment and gradual decline from average tee...more

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Aug 22, 2009 LibraryLass rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2009, library-book, ya-fiction

This was simpy a fantastic read. I read it cover to cover in one sitting.

This book is so far out of what I normally read. I don't read a lot of these 'issues' books written for teens. I feel they are usually over-done to say the least. This story is not in the same league as anything like those. This book is about an English-born Pakistani boy who leads the life of most normal English boys. He very rarely has seen the hate that is directed at Muslims or Pakistanis until he visits his own homelan...more

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Jan 18, 2012 Danna rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: death-penalty, coming-of-age, about-the-world, crime, missing-children, ya, page-turner

I was eager to read Guantanamo Boy after reading the book jacket: I had no idea that dozens of underage boys had been kidnapped and brought to prison there in the terror-filled wake post-9/11. This felt like a story that needed to be read.

Guantanamo Boy is a novel about Khalid, a 15-year-old England native, who ends up in captivity during his family's Easter vacation in Pakistan (his father's native country). In every aspect of his life, Khalid led a normal teenage existence: obsessed with socc...more

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Oct 07, 2011 Meri L rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When I first started this book, I thought I might not like it, because I was getting annoyed with the authors style of writing. The words just didn't seem to flow, and the story was going very slowly, but after he went to Pakistan, I got more into the book and really felt that the story was getting better. There were not too many graphic details about the torture that Khalid went through during his stay at the prison, just enough to give you a glimpse of what he was feeling, but not enough for t...more

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Jul 01, 2011 Isamlq rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arc-galley

It took five chapters for me to get into it. I'd heard it was a "harrowing" tale and such and such, but all I was reading was a story of young man, a boy really, whose just like any other: Khalid loves his mother, follows his father and is not as aware of the goings-on as I'd have liked him to be. When he and his family go on a vacation things change.

And harrowing things did become.

I can tell you precisely which line had me paying closer attention. When someones says, "You don't have any legal...more

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Apr 19, 2009 Candace rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

Fifteen-year-old Khalid Ahmed is like any other British boy. He plays footy with his mates, messes about in class, goes to parties, and spends far too much time on his computer playing online video games. His biggest worry is his GCSE exams. That all changes when he visits his relatives in Karachi, Pakistan, and is captured and arrested as a suspected terrorist. Tortured into confessing crimes he didn't commit, Khalid is eventually taken to imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay.

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Dec 07, 2011 Angie rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I won't write a synopsis since that's already covered by the other reviews.
I am reading the galley on kindle so i only know the percentage of the book that I've read so far--45%. So far (and from the start), the writing is not engaging me in this young man's mind. I am not feeling what he does; I was hoping for a story that would draw me in and shake me up. There is so much that is left out of the story that would have gotten me hooked. For example, the behaviors change too quickly without shar...more

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Jun 03, 2012 Sandy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: library, ya

You know what it is like to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Well that is exactly what happens to Khalid when he is mistaken for a terrorist and ends up in Guantanamo Bay prison at the age of 15. His family decides to go to Pakistan to visit relatives and while looking for his father, he comes upon an anti-American rally and one thing leads to another and his life is turned upside down. Originally from England, and being of the Muslim descent, Khalid is being targeted for wrongdoings aga...more

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Aug 14, 2011 Kimberly rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 52-books-in-52-weeks-2011

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Khalid was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is a Muslim boy from England who is kidnapped and dragged to Guantanamo Bay. With no one to help him, and his family not knowing where he is, Khalid faces torture, mental and physical as images of his life flash before his eyes. And he holds onto the one thing they cannot take away from him. Hope.

Khalid is a great character. He's a teenage boy who thinks about soccer and girls. Having grown up in England, he is westernized and cannot...more ARC review:

Khalid was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is a Muslim boy from England who is kidnapped and dragged to Guantanamo Bay. With no one to help him, and his family not knowing where he is, Khalid faces torture, mental and physical as images of his life flash before his eyes. And he holds onto the one thing they cannot take away from him. Hope.

Khalid is a great character. He's a teenage boy who thinks about soccer and girls. Having grown up in England, he is westernized and cannot comprehend why he is being dragged away from his family, or why no one believes him when he tells them who he is- a 15 year old boy who was visiting family.

Perera's uses a lot of strong imagery; you can't help but feel Khalid's confusion and misery. Who betrayed him? A stranger? A family member? Khalid has plenty of time to think about these things while he suffers in prison for days that go on and on...

This was a very hard book for me to read. While I think the story is interesting and the ideas are sound, the book was a bit too long and drawn out for me. (Khalid didn't arrive at Guantanamo until half way through the book.) Plenty of bad things happen before Guantanamo, but by the time he reaches the prison, Khalid has already been through really horrible stuff so Guantanamo didn't seem to be as jarring or offensive as I'm sure it was meant to be.
The darker days were offset by the beautiful memories of Khalid's life before the kidnapping. His memories are strong and they give him hope to keep going. But he's only 15, and there's only so much he can handle. Teetering on the brink of madness, Khalid loses all sense of childhood and security so quickly I forgot I was reading about a 15-year-old boy. The only thing that reminded me was his persistent screams of his age towards his captors.

I think it was important to read it, but I can't admit to liking the book. It's a very powerful story and the graphic images of torture, including water boarding are very real. The most horrific and sad part was in the author's note which states Khalid's journey was not uncommon occurrence- teens were brought to Guantanamo Bay. And that the prison still houses a little less than 200 prisoners today, two years after President Obama announced its closure.(less)

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Mar 11, 2012 M rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I came across this book by accident - drawn to it by the title, and the bright orange cover and page edges. I didn't realise it was a YA book until I opened it and read the blurb about the author. In the end, I didn't need to know that - this does not read like a young adult novel at all.

The plot is harsh, shocking, sad and, most upsetting of all, based firmly in reality. One of the things I loved the most about it was how smart the main character is. It would've been easy for the author to give...more

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Jun 16, 2010 April rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, multicultural, ereader

Khalid Ahmad is a 15 year old English boy. He watches and plays futbal, works hard at school, has strong family values and an affinity for computer games. He takes a trip to Pakistan with his family, as his father must clean up loose ends after his grandmother dies. Of course, Khalid is in Pakistan in the wake of 9/11 and is picked up for being a terrorist. He is then thrown in jail without a trail, his habeous corpus suspended -- however I don't know if England has habeous corpus. Right-o. Of c...more

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Mar 07, 2012 Ethan Albers rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Guantanamo Boy

1. Genre-Historical Fiction
2. Awards-Puffin Award
3. Star Rating- Me (4 out of 5 star) reviews (3.5 out of 5 stars)
4. In the midst of his teenage years Khalid from the suburb of London enjoyed being a normal kid playing football on the school team. He has lots of friends and a crush on a girl and she doesn’t know yet. It is September 2003, and his family decides to take their fall break trip to see the relatives in Pakistan. The family has never been to their homeland and it is a ne...more Guantanamo Boy

1. Genre-Historical Fiction
2. Awards-Puffin Award
3. Star Rating- Me (4 out of 5 star) reviews (3.5 out of 5 stars)
4. In the midst of his teenage years Khalid from the suburb of London enjoyed being a normal kid playing football on the school team. He has lots of friends and a crush on a girl and she doesn’t know yet. It is September 2003, and his family decides to take their fall break trip to see the relatives in Pakistan. The family has never been to their homeland and it is a new experience for everyone especially the 15 year old Khalid. He quickly finds out that the people around him are very different from what he had expected. He has nothing in common with his own blood except the fact him and cousins both like to play bomber one. One night playing Bomber One a group chat starts, and the mention of bombing different cities comes up. It’s just talk of the game and the objective but at this time of the Middle East, the U.S. is trying to crack down on anything that may be related to Al-Qaeda. For Khalid he joins in the conversation and says one dumb thing and now he is part of the most wanted and he doesn’t know it.

Shortly after, figures coming storming in to take him into custody and they’re disclosed figures not able to recognize who they are. He is taken back to a local holding concentration cell where the U.S. military is station, and their goal is to crack down on the Al-Qaeda members. He loses track of time while being held in custody and is constantly being interrogated about his relation to the terrorists. He’s always replying with the statement that “I’m just a boy from London on vacation, and I was playing a video game.” The talks began to become more and more frustrated because both sides are not budging. Khalid gets so frustrated he ends up deciding to just give in when the other party says if you’ll just sign here you’re free to go. Without even thinking Khalid signs and he’s off to Guantanamo Bay one of the most fear camps around the world. He no longer knows if he’s going to come out alive or not.

5. The book is well written and definitely depicts the life of a possible civilian prisoner of war. She goes into uncharted territories on a topic and that has never really been discussed or addressed so shortly after the terrorist attacks on America. That’s what made the book so good to read was reading it from a point that was very interesting and never been documented. However, the book is definitely very slow at times especially the beginning when he’s traveling to Pakistan. The process of him becoming custody of the U.S. takes forever and that’s when the good stuff happens.

6. This is definitely a Semi-Open Ending and the reason for this is how the problem is definitely ended. Khalid writes to his cousin “There’s not much more I can tell you, cuz,. I don’t think that feeling of total misery will ever really go away. Soon, I promise, you’ll get home. But whenever I start to think of that prison, I stop and remind myself how kind most people are in the world. Did I tell you Mac, my nice neighbor, is going to teach me to drive his car? For free. How cool is that? He says that he’s going to get his cousin home but doesn’t ever say he’s determined to do it so it’s a little confusing if it would be possible to write a sequel about the escape of his cousin. Just don’t see it happening in my personal opinion but the ending is weak.
7. This book definitely shaped a field of writing that was never entered until Perera makes a splash. She explores the area of the life of a prisoner of war and a detail seems to be a pretty accurate description of what could be a life of what a Guantanamo prisoner. She marks a type of genre that is characterized by a documentation of a fictional character who is telling their side of a story. It’s sometimes a little bias but it’s almost a diary.

From this book there are so many references to pop cultural and use of these in describing what type of person Khalid is and where he comes from. The biggest is the use of his race and the sport he plays of football (soccer). He enjoys video games and being with his friends, it is just his atypical teenager’s life. This book applies very heavily towards the life new century type of person. Anna Perera’s book consists of the new wave of teenage books, and that the transition to American Literature.
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Jul 29, 2011 Christina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: multicultural, realistic

This is a powerful book about a tough subject that is not usually addressed in a teen novel, and it is good to have it now. A Pakistani British boy is kidnapped while visiting relatives in Pakistan, for no reason other than wrong place, wrong time. He is taken to secret places and interrogated, beaten, fed poorly, never given answers to his questions or allowed to call his family, and ends up in Guantanamo. It is difficult to read but also compelling, as this situation goes from bad dream to nig...more

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Apr 24, 2012 Ann rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

No one could ever imagine this happening to them. Playing violent videos games is the norm now, no one makes a kid feel bad about playing a violent video game like call of duty. How would Khalid, the main character know that just because he is muslim playing a video game like that could get him arrested. During the time of the 9/11 attack Muslims are shunned and all are looked on as terrorists. One day as Khalid plays his video game "bomber one" he gets a rude awakening. I loved this story and t...more

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Oct 15, 2012 Kristen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Wow. This book will forever haunt me. I have to admit, I knew very little about Guantanamo Bay before reading this...just snippets I'd heard in the news here and there. I have come away from reading this book informed and horrified. I kept having trouble believing that the torturous treatment of the prisoners at Guantanamo (and many other terrorist prisons) was not something from WWII or something. This treatment is recent stuff...current events! I feel duped. I'm an intelligent, up-to-date, pol...more

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Sep 14, 2011 Julia Wilson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a serious subject and I understand why the author wants young people to understand it. She has taken a 15-year-old boy and put him in Guantanamo Bay by 'accident'. The entire book takes place from his point of view and, at times, this has the unintended effect of making the reader numb to the situation. I felt like she had a check list of issues (waterboarding, misunderstanding of the Islamic culture) that she felt the need to check off.
I think it is a strong book but might have been st...more

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Jun 10, 2012 Kellee rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: war, multicultural, realistic-fiction, ya-teen, survival, teach-mentor-texts

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Guantanamo Bay is a very secretive part of American present history. It was a place where the American government acted as if they were above the law torturing and detaining suspected terrorists, including children, without a fair trail, much less much evidence. And although it has now been found that complete horrors were happening there, it is still open and housing approximately 169 prisoners (as of 4/12). It is hard to imagine the violatio...more

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May 22, 2011 Izzy G. rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fifteen-year-old Khalid, a Muslim boy from England, has recently started to struggle with his religious identity and the way other people view him, especially since he looks so much older than his age. But assumptions made about him escalate to an all time high when he's abducted during a trip to Pakistan to visit family. He's taken to Guantanamo Bay without charges and once he spends time in that horrific prison, everything changes.

Everyone's heard about Guantanamo Bay and the torture that take...more

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Apr 07, 2012 Krista (CubicleBlindness Reviews) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The events of 9/11 caused a lot of different emotions from not only the U.S. but worldwide. The war on terror caused several different countries to react, set new laws and regulations and safety measures. This story begins in the U.K. 6 months after 9/11.
There is really not much to say about what happens in the story that the summary does not cover. It is a good source of trying to help understand how things can go wrong. I believe that I read that this was based on a true story. It would be a...more

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