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Guantanamo Boy

by Anna Perera

Ages: 12+

Published: 2011

Publisher: Albert Whitman

ISBN: 978-0-8075-3077-1

Keywords: Prejudice, Diversity

On vacation in Pakistan, a fifteen-year-old British boy, Khalid Ahmed, is seized and sent to Guantanamo where he suffers brutal interrogation and torture.