Caught in the Crossfire: Growing Up in a War Zone

Caught in the Crossfire: Growing Up in a War Zone
ISBN-10
0802783643
ISBN-13
9780802783646
Series
Caught in the Crossfire
Category
Children and war
Pages
120
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Walker & Company
Author
Maria Ousseimi

Description

Uses incidents from Lebanon, El Salvador, Mozambique, Bosnia-Herzegovinia, and Washington, D.C., to examine the effect on children of growing up in a war zone.

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