TY - BOOK AU - Higgins, M.G., TI - Rebel SN - 9781680211092 U1 - F HIG PY - 2016/// CY - Newport Beach, Calif. PB - Saddleback, KW - High interest-low vocabulary books KW - Child soldiers KW - Fiction KW - Soccer KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / General N1 - Lexile: 230L N2 - Koji’s world is like any boy’s. He loves sports. Goes to school. Studies hard. Dreams big. But childhood ends quickly. Rebel forces enter his village. They ransack the school. Their teacher is beaten. Maybe even killed. The boys line up, guns to their backs. Koji’s group goes one way. His best friend’s another. What’s happened to his family? They are all dead, says a rebel. And you will be too if you don’t do what we say. They march for hours. Days. One boy drinks too much water. He is hit again and again. Then murdered. The boys watch and learn. That will not be their fate. It’s kill or be killed. So they kill … ER -