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The boy who runs : the odyssey of Julius Achon Cover Image Book Book

The boy who runs : the odyssey of Julius Achon

Brant, John 1951- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 0553392158
  • ISBN: 9780553392159
  • Physical Description: print
    xvi, 248 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2016]

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Summary, etc.: Julius Achon is the director of the Achon Uganda Children's Fund, a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life in rural Uganda. He was captured at 12 and turned into a boy soldier; then miraculously found a career as one of the world's foremost middle-distance runners. How these life jumps happened is told here.

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Subject: Uganda
Runners (Sports)
Child soldiers
HISTORY -- Africa -- General
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Running & Jogging
Child soldiers -- Uganda -- Biography
Runners (Sports) -- Uganda -- Biography
Achon, Julius -- 1976-
Genre: Biographies.
Biography.
Biographies.

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  • 14 of 14 copies available at All C/W MARS Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at East Longmeadow Public Library.

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East Longmeadow Public Library 796.42 BRA (Text) 30595001037962 Second Floor Available -
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