Chand'a Wars

By Allan Stratton

Book Overview

It's been six months since Mama died, and Chanda is struggling to raise her little brother and sister. Determined to end a family feud, she takes them to her relatives' remote rural village. But across the nearby border, a brutal civil war is spreading. Rebels led by the ruthless General Mandiki attack at night, stealing children. All that separates Chanda from the horror is a stretch of rugged bush and a national park alive with predators. soon, not even that. Before she knows it, Chanda must face the unthinkable, with a troubled young tracker as her unlikely ally. In Chanda, Allan Stratton has created a complex character who puts a face to the atrocities too many children face. This is a compelling and important book for young readers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554685664
• ISBN13: 9781554685660
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Harpertrophy Canada
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.4" x 7.0"

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.