(2) YA Illustrated by Daniel Lafrance. McKay and Lafrance's graphic-novel reworking of McKay's 2008 novel tells in harrowing detail the story of children abducted to become soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda; the book begins with the ambush of a school bus. Lafrance varies his palette strategically to present an unflinchingly dark visual representation of the horrors young boys experience at the hands of the LRA.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2013

(3) YA Photographs by Rafal Gerszak. Two teenage girls in Afghanistan, one raised and educated in England (causing the Taliban to target her family) and one a native Afghani facing an arranged marriage, try to escape to Pakistan. The story is involving and the characters are sympathetic. McKay conveys much about Afghan culture, life, and the Taliban and successfully avoids stereotyping. Timeline. Glos.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth