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I just read the most amazing book. It's called Child Soldiers by Michel Chikwanine and Jessica Dee Humphries. It's a memoir or an autobiography about Michel and his experiences growing up the Congo in the early 1990s. Michel lived a life of relative privilege-his dad was a respected lawyer and his mom sold fish and fabric in the market. They always had food and he was able to go school (an hour's walk from home). One day, he ignored his dad's rule about being home on time and was kidnapped by rebel soldiers. Many terrible things happened but Michel was able to escape and find his way back home. It wasn't especially easy back at home either. There are gorgeous pictures to help to conceptualize the horrible things that are happening in the story but the message is so important, I think his one should find it's way into our library. Here's a video with Michel speaking. Here was another really good one. ...