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Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Kuklin
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 499870
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0805054596
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.34092
EAN: 9780805054590
ASIN: 0805054596
Publication Date: October 15, 1998
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Condition: Ex-Library Book with very clean to like new condition. The book was purchased from the local library. No highlighting or markings. We ship daily with no hassle return policy.
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In December of 1994, twelve-year-old Iqbal Masih was honored as a hero. Just two years earlier, he had been a slave, condemned to a lifetime of bonded labor in a Pakistani carpet factory. And five months later, he was dead, murdered in his homeland. Though he is gone, his actions inspired an international campaign of middle-school students and adults that is helping to free and to educate thousands of child laborers. Here is the powerful story of Iqbal's life and death, and of the movement that continues the struggle against child labor today.
This book does more than recount Iqbal's own amazing odyssey. Both sobering and inspiring, it shows how we are all implicated in the global practice of child labor, and how we can all work together to end it.
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Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery February 1, 2000
Mary Z. Cox (Tallahassee, FL USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The story of Iqbal changed my perception of a child's place in the world. Who would have thought a four-year-old could be sold for approximately twelve dollars and forced to work in a rug factory? Who could imagine that a twelve-year-old Iqbal could speak for the rights of children in Pakistan? This book made me angry and it made me cry. Susan Kuklin describes the lives of poor Pakistani families who are forced to sell their children into a life of bondage. This compelling piece of creative non-fiction is aimed at the middle school market, but the story is universal, and the black and white photos allow the reader into a world that is not an urban tale--but all too real. A must read for anyone that is interested in the future of the world's children. I'm a media specialist at BelleVue Middle School in Florida. A small group of students and I read this book together. My students were shocked that many villages in Pakistan are too poor to have schools. They compared younger brothers and sisters to Iqbal in the factory. They learned a great deal about mobility and what it would be like to not have it. This book has a helpful index and glossary of terms as well as descriptive side-bars that make research easy.
A Hero to Remember March 20, 2002
manny gutierrez
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
In the month of December of the year 1994, there was a 12yr old boy honored as a hero. Iqbal Masih had been a child slave in a Pakastani carpet factory. Five months later Masih had been murdered in his own homeland. Though his life was taken, his actions live on as he inspired middle school students world-wide and adults to help free and educate the child laborers. This is a powerful story of a courageous boys life and death. Masih was a remarkable boy who lived a very full, inspirational life in a tragically short life spand of only twelve years.
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