Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Perera, Anna.

Guantanamo boy / by Anna Perera.

p. cm.

Summary: Six months after the events of September 11, 2001, Khalid, a Muslim fifteen-year-old boy from England is kidnapped during a family trip to Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he is held for two years suffering interrogations, water-boarding, isolation, and more for reasons unknown to him.

ISBN 978-0-8075-3077-1 (hardcover)

1. Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp—Juvenile fiction.

[1. Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp—Fiction. 2. Prisoners—Fiction. 3. Prejudices—Fiction. 4. Torture—Fiction. 5. Cousins—Fiction.

6. Muslims—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.P42489Gu 2011

[Fic]—dc22

2010048016

Text copyright © 2009 by Anna Perera.

First published in Great Britain by Puffin Books.

Published in 2011 by Albert Whitman & Company.

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