A Long Way Gone: Autobiography by Ishmael Beah

He travels village to village with a group of boys, who soon become his close friends, looking for food and shelter

Ishmael becomes a child soldier and has to steal from villagers to survive.

Once he becomes a soldier for Sierra Leone, he has a hard time with the idea of killing someone else, but after some harsh training, he doesn't have this problem and wants nothing to do with anyone related to the rebels or anyone who is one themself.