Yearning for freedom and schooling for himself and the other children who toil in a carpet factory in Pakistan to repay loans from the factory owner to their parents, Nadeem is inspired by a former carpet boy named Iqbal Masih to lead the way.
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- ISBN: 9780884482499
- Author: Shea, Pegi Deitz
- Illustrator: Morin, Leane
- Published: 2006 , Tilbury House Publishers
- Themes: Escape, freedom, slavery, social justice
- Descriptors: Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Middle East, Pakistan
- No. of pages: 32