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Creators
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Publisher
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Release date
April 29, 2004 -
Formats
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781449888077
- File size: 83554 KB
- Duration: 02:54:04
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 730
- Text Difficulty: 3
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Reviews
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Little does anyone, including the slave master, realize how much Iqbal will change the situation of the child slaves when he enters the Pakistani carpet-making factory. There children sold into slavery to pay family debts work from dawn to dusk with little food or rest. Iqbal gives them hope and eventually helps to free them. He soon becomes an international hero, but, because he threatens the rich and powerful, he is murdered in 1995 by a mafia. Each character is sympathetically and realistically drawn in Christina Moore's humane presentation. Listeners will feel that they too are in the carpet factory. A compelling work, based on true events, is skillfully rendered with compassion and expertise. S.G.B. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine -
July 18, 2005
A bonded servant in a Pakistani carpet factory narrates this novel inspired by the life and work of Masih. In a starred review, PW
said it "packs an emotional punch. An eye-opening, genuinely touching novel." Ages 8-12. -
Starred review from November 10, 2003
D'Adamo's brief book, his first published in the U.S., packs an emotional punch in a novel also inspired by the life and work of Masih. Narrator Fatima is a bonded servant in a carpet factory in Pakistan, where she and a dozen or so other children work from dawn until dusk with little food or water, handweaving carpets that make their "owner," Hussain Khan, wealthy. Into their factory steps young Iqbal. A stunning act of bravery nearly kills him but also plants a seed of rebellion in his fellow workers; another turn of events exposes just how corrupt and deeply ingrained the country's system is. D'Adamo's prose is straightforward, almost reportorial, but the author also carefully chooses hauntingly poetic images that reflect the children's plight: an open window too high for the children to view, and later, when hope begins to bloom, a kite. D'Adamo pays fitting respect to Iqbal's name and bravery with this eye-opening, genuinely touching novel. Ages 8-12.
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