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Winner of the Whitbread Award for best children's novel
Paul Kagomi's most precious possession is his AK - his gun.
He is a Warrior, a boy soldier, trained for a terrible war in the African bush. He doesn't remember his real parents. For him his father is Michael, who leads the guerrilla group, and his mother is the war.
Peace comes - and Paul buries his gun and goes to school. But it does not last. Soldiers come to burn the school and kill the children, and Paul must flee through the bush to find his gun and then ...
Will it be war once more, or is there another way?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Peter Dickinson was born in Africa, within earshot of the Victoria Falls. When he was seven, his family moved to England, where he later graduated from Cambridge. For seventeen years he worked on the staff of the magazine Punchbeore starting his career as a writer - which he knew he was meant for since he was five years old. His first book was published in 1968, and since then he has written more than fifty novels for adults and young readers. In 1999 he was one of the three writers chosen for the shortlist for Britain's first Children's Laureate, and in 2000 he was shortlisted for the
International Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Among his award-winning children's books are City of Gold(Carnegie Medal), Tulku (Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Childen's Book of the Year), Eva(Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal), The Blue Hawk(Guardian Children's Fiction Award) and The Rope-maker(shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. AKwon the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award.

REVIEWS:

'A powerful story, alive with the smells and colours and rhythms of Africa'- The Bookseller
'A novel of considerable tension and pace'- TES
'Peter Dickinson at his best ... immensely readable'- The Junior Bookshelf

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