The story of Iqbal Masih, a very young boy of very strong beliefs and is willing to fight for them. His story is related by a young girl named Fatima. Iqbal is sold into slavery by his father to gain some money to buy medicine for his younger brother and each day of work is to be deducted from the loan, but in reality these kids never gain freedom.
Iqbal fights against this injustice and is punished, being determined he manages to escape and during his brief period of freedom he discovers a group fighting for kids freedom. He is caught and punished but this makes him determined to get the other children involved in the fight and eventually he does escape from the slavery, he persues the fight with the freedom group to abolish child slavery in Pakistan.
Aladdin Paperbacks
c2005
Reading Level: 12 - 18 yearsGenre: Teenage Fiction
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