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Boys without namesKashmira Sheth

Boys without names

2010
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For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve, his baba has warned. With the darkness of night as cover, they flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and a brighter future. Gopal is eager to help support his struggling family until school starts, so when a stranger approaches him with the promise of a factory job, he jumps at the offer.But Gopal has been deceived. There is no factory, just a small, stuffy sweatshop where he and five other boys are forced to make beaded frames for no money and little food. The boys are…

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3 editions
  • Ebook · English · 2010
    HarperCollins · 9780061991882
  • Other · English · 2011
    Balzer and Bray · 9780061857621
  • Other · English · 2010
    Balzer & Bray · 9780061857607
SweatshopsJuvenile FictionFictionMissing personsJuvenile fictionChildren's fictionIndia, fictionLabor, fiction