Boys Without Names Contributor(s): Sheth, Kashmira (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061857602 ISBN-13: 9780061857607 Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
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BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Asia - Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Homelessness & Poverty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dewey: FIC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
LCCN: 2009011747 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Age Level: 8-12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grade Level: 3-7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lexile Measure: 670 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Physical Information: 1.09" H x 5.82" W x 8.36" L (0.89 lbs) 320 pages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Awards: Georgia Children's Book Award, Alternate, Children's Book, 2013 South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Nominee, Junior Book, 2012 Sasquatch Award, Nominee, Children/Young Adult, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Review Citations: Booklist 11/15/2009 pg. 40 Kirkus Review - Children 11/15/2009 Publishers Weekly 12/21/2009 pg. 61 School Library Journal 01/01/2010 pg. 113 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2010 Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2010 - Recommended - Readable Multicultural Review 08/01/2010 pg. 72 Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2010 - Recommended, Satisfactory BookPage 01/01/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Description: 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 forbidden to talk or even to call one another by their real names. In this atmosphere of distrust and isolation, locked in a rundown building in an unknown part of the city, Gopal despairs of ever seeing his family again. But late one night, when Gopal decides to share kahanis, or stories, he realizes that storytelling might be the boys' key to holding on to their sense of self and their hope for any kind of future. If he can make them feel more like brothers than enemies, their lives will be more bearable in the shop--and they might even find a way to escape. |
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Contributor Bio(s): Sheth, Kashmira: - Kashmira Sheth spoke to many child workers in Mumbai as part of her research for Boys Without Names. Kashmira herself was born in Gujarat, India, and moved to the United States when she was seventeen to attend university. She is the author of Blue Jasmine, an IRA Children's Book Award Winner; Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet; and Keeping Corner, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. The mother of two daughters, Kashmira lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin. |
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