Theme: Child labor

Saraswati’s Way

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.
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Yasmin’s Hammer

By Book Importer | Published: July 23, 2010

A young Bangladeshi girl who helps support her family by working in a brickyard finds a way to make her dream of going to school and learning to read a reality.

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The Gate In The Wall

By Kathy G. Short | Published: December 1, 2008

Pressed into service as a canal woman, ten-year-old Emma finds ways to utilize her artistic gifts. Although it is a better existence than her strenuous job in the English silk mill, she feels guilty over the sister she left behind. Authentic details make this an engaging story–one that reveals the hardships of the mid-1800s when [...]

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A Chance Child

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Compelled to search for his half-brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel Creep’s personal narrative of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution 100 years earlier.

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Just So Stories

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

This collection of 12 stories reveals Kipling’s imagined answers to the great mysteries in the animal world. He draws on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language. Originally published in 1902.

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Isa’s Avocado Tree

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Isa plants an avocado and enjoys taking care of her little tree until a typhoon comes and blows it down. As life slowly returns to normal after the storm, Isa is comforted by new life all around her–and a new avocado seed.

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Mexican Native Dances: Regional Dances Of Mexico

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Since remote times, the dance has played an essential part in the life of the Mexican people. The variety of dances executed in Mexico in the present day is incredible–this booklet describes the costumes and history behind fourteen dances.

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Iqbal

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, he changes everything for the other overworked and abused children there. Iqbal explains that despite their master’s promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinitely. Iqbal also inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil…and is brave enough to [...]

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