book cover of Guantanamo Boy
 

Guantanamo Boy

(2009)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2009 Costa Book Award for Children's Book (nominee)

Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man.


Genre: Young Adult Fiction

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