Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Sombo, the leader of their child soldier detachment, eventually deserts them. During the war, Arn is separated from Kha and Siv. He also befriends Sombo, a Khmer Rouge soldier not much older than him who works as a guard at the camp. Hong’s family leaves the country, knowing that the Khmer Rouge execute foreigners.Īrn makes friends in the camp with two boys in his music ensemble, Kha and Siv, and his music teacher Mek, who becomes a father figure to him. As Arn is moved from one labor camp to another, he loses track of most of his family members and assumes they are dead. His best friend is a Chinese boy named Hong. Arn’s journey takes him from his hometown of Battambang, Cambodia, through four years of forced labor and fighting for the Khmer Rouge as a child soldier, to a refugee camp in Thailand, and, finally, to his new home in the United States.Īrn is the fourth of six children, raised by their aunt after their father dies and the family falls into financial difficulty. ![]()
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