In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started...

"Fifteen-year-old Sloane can incinerate an enemy at will; she is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. But under the brutal rule of the Lucis, her identity means her death. Her mother knew as much. She disappeared trying to hide Sloane's truth. Sloane, too, has hidden her abilities, but on her fifteenth birthday, she is conscripted into the Lucis army. Once taken, Sloane must not only conceal her power but overcome the bloody challenges...

Parallel story to Ender's game. An orphan named Bean is found on the streets of Amsterdam and taken to Battle School, where he becomes both friend and rival to Ender Wiggin.

"A profound and deeply moving journey into the minds of children who live with war." - Ishmael Beah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier "Charles London brings an uncomfortable truth to life. This book is often difficult reading, but attention must be paid." - Ambassador Richard Holbrooke "The stories told by these children...are essential to our humanity..." - --Ben Fountain, author of BRIEF ENCOUNTERS...

"In Song for Night, My Luck, a West African boy soldier who has lost his voice, leads us on a terrifying yet beautiful journey through the nightmare landscape of a brutal war in search of his lost platoon. Masterful, haunting, and written in a ghostly yet lyrical voice, this is a remarkable and empathetic story of courage, grace, morality and triumph."--BOOK JACKET.

A group of child soldiers, Mikazuki Augus, Orga Itsuka, and several others, are sent to protect a young aristocrat seeking to liberate a Martian city from Earth₂s rule. When an outside force threatens those involved, Mikazuki must head into battle using a war-era relic, the Gundam Barbatos.

As continued fighting takes its toll on Mikazuki, the Gundam Barbatos Lupus and the Tekkadan company, McGillis and a group of revolutionaries organize to take over Gjallarhorn.

Under its leader Orga Itsuka, Tekkadan guards one of the Admoss Company's mining sites filled with halfmetal, while Mikazuki must travel to collect the repaired mobile suit Gundam Barbatos Lupus.

Ugandan boys Jacob and Tony, after being abducted and turned into child soldiers, escape from their captors and reach safety, but Jacob is left with the mental scars of their ordeal.

This is not the Africa of Isak Dinesen, nor the Africa of Joy Adamson. This is the Africa of civil wars and tribal massacres, where the Lord's Resistance Army recruits child-soldiers after forcing them to kill their parents and eat their hearts. The aid workers who voluntarily subject themselves to life here are a breed of their own. Meet Hickey, an American schoolteacher in his late thirties, an American schoolteacher who burns his bridges with...