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Alive in the Killing Fields
Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide
By Keat, Nawuth & Kendall, Martha E.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-42630-515-3
- Publisher
- National Geographic Children's Books
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2009
Gr 6-Up At age nine, Keat was rousted from his bed by Khmer Rouge soldiers. After savagely murdering most of his family, they shot him three times and left him for dead. Miraculously, he survived, only to spend the next few years fighting for his life and running from the Khmer Rouge along with his remaining family members. Eventually, he and his siblings made their way ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2010 |
"The Khmer Rouge had guns, they had food, they had everything. But I still had my brain and the courage to use it." This riveting memoir begins in 1973 when the Khmer Rouge attack the Cambodian village of nine-year-old Nawuth (then called Mop), killing five of his family members, including his mother and infant sister, and leaving him bleeding in a ditch strewn with dead bodies. That thi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
With Martha E. Kendall. This riveting memoir begins in 1973 when the Khmer Rouge attack the Cambodian village of nine-year-old Nawuth, killing...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
