Chalkline

This book is about a nine year old Indian boy Rafiq, set in a backwoods village in Kashmir.

The mornings dawn prayer silence is shattered with the sound of gunfire.  The Kashmir Freedom Fighter soldiers have arrived in search of new recruits for their force, they choose kids by drawing a chalk line across the school room wall and those kids unlucky enough to reach the line are taken to join their terrorist group.

It is a rather sad story about a young boy whose life is shattered and the ordeal he has to go through with training to be a terrorist as well as what motivates him to harm others.



 Jane Mitchell
 London: Walker
 c2009
 Reading level:  12 -18 years
 Genre: Teenage fiction
 Whitehorse Manningham Regional Library.
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