A Long Way Home Ch1

This book takes place in Africa when once a group of bad people went town to town killing people and burning their houses. They would also get the people that they capture and pick the ones that look stronger and braver so that they can become rebels also even when they don't want to become bad people. The ones that didn't get picked would get killed by the ones that did get picked. So this started about a boy telling his life before all this happen. But at the middle of chapter one he starts to say that the rebels have start attacking some town and that his his town was next to be attacked. Since they heard there town was next they had people watching the roads to make sure that they would see when the rebels were coming. so days passed and nothing happen so people stooped worrying and got back to their normal liefs.So one day Ishmael and his friends went to some were going to go to Mattru Jong because they were going to go to some kind of studio to learn how to sing rap and to learn how to dance. On their way back to thier town thay heard that their town had been attacked alrady. So Ishmael worried because his dad was still their and didnt know if he was a live or not.