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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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The Carpet Boy's Gift

by Pegi Deitz Shea

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Nadeem and his fellow workers are bonded laborers, children who work day and night to pay off loans their families have accepted from a factory owner. Although Nadeem and his cousin Amina take pride in helping their poor families, they yearn to go to school ant to have time to play. One day a former carpet boy named Iqbal Masih leads a parade in the village. New laws have abolished bonded labor! Iqbal urges Nadeem to fight for freedom and to lead the children to a new school in town. This fictional story honors the legacy of Iqbal Masih, a real boy who escaped from a factory and worked to liberate child workers like Nameem by the thousands. Resources at the end of the story lead to more information about child labor issues and encourage children to support companies that work to make the world a better place for all.

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ISBN:
9780884482499
Author:
Shea, Pegi Deitz
Publisher:
Tilbury House Publishers
Illustrator:
Morin, Leane
Author:
Deitz Shea, Pegi
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Historical
Publication Date:
May 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
YES
Pages:
38
Dimensions:
1000x890x10 39
Age Level:
08-12

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