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The Bite of Mango by Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland

4.0

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Mariatu Kamara was just 12 years old when child soldiers burned her village in Sierra Leone, cut off her hands, and left her to die. She trekked many miles to a hospital where she was eventually reunited with family members who had suffered the same injuries. With help from a Canadian family, Kamara emigrated to North America and attended school for the first time. This is a powerful, female counterpart to Ishmael Beah's memoir "Long Way Gone." Beah and Kamara actually met in Canada, and he encouraged her to write her memoir.