Chanda's Wars

by Allan Stratton

Book Overview

Listen to Allan Stratton reading from? Chanda's Wars. Allan Stratton won the Michael L. Printz Honor and the Children's Africana Book Award for Chanda's Secrets, his searing novel set against the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060872624
• ISBN13: 9780060872625
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Harperteen
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.0" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

Pretty good

I am very interested in Africa and even though I usually stick to memoirs (Some of my favorites are A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and They Poured Fire on Use From the Sky) I did like this book well enough. I would like readers to understand that the story takes place in a fictional country with a fictional war and war lords, this was something that really confused me while I was reading it and disappointed me later. The ending was not at all realistic even if it was satisfying and I got the over all feeling that the author was trying to sugar it up. I wish he might have incorporated more true to life events and gone with a more reasonable depiction of some of the wars in Africa, even if he didn't use a real country.