Kick. About the Book Budi dreams big.
He's going to be a star footballer playing for Real Madrid like his idol, instead of working in a sweatshop making the boots his idol wears. But one unlucky kick brings the real world crashing down. Because now he owes the Dragon, the deadliest gang lord in Jakarta. And if he doesn't pay up, his family's lives are at stake... Product Details ISBN: 9781474928151ISBN 10: 1474928153Imprint: Usborne - GBOn Sale: 30/10/2017 Trimsize: 130.000 mm (w) x 200.000 mm (h) x 20.000 mm (d) Pages:304RRP:$16.99 NZDBISAC1 : Undefined Category. The Ones That Disappeared. A powerful and moving story of three trafficked children searching for freedom and hope.
Around the world, millions of people - including many children - are victims of human trafficking. These modern-day slaves often go unseen even in our own cities and towns, their voices silent and their stories untold. In this incredible book, Zana Fraillon imagines the story of three such children, Esra, Miran and Isa. The result is powerful, heartbreaking and unforgettable. Trash. Boys without Names. 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.
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. Diamond Boy. Spilled Water. Sold. The heart-wrenching story of Lakshmi, from Nepal, who is sold into prostitution at the age of 13, and kept captive in 'Happiness House' - where she not only survives, against all odds, but triumphs.
Now a film staring Gillian Anderson. Lakshmi's family is desperately poor, but village life in the mountains of Nepal has its share of pleasures. When the monsoons wreck their crops yet again, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. She arrives at 'Happiness House' full of hope, but soon learns the unthinkable truth - she has been sold into prostitution. This new world becomes a nightmare from which there is no escape.
Silver People: A Tale from the Panama Canal. As the Panama Canal turns 100, Newbery Honor-winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse.
How can such a narrow bridge of land be so important? One hundred years ago, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal. It was a miracle. Where a mountain once stood was now a path of water connecting the world's two largest oceans. But creating a miracle is no easy task. Hinterland. It is night, and two boys are crossing a river that is also a border.
They have nothing but the clothes on their backs, their inheritance stitched into the lining of a belt, and the courage of an enormous gamble: that Europe will offer them a future they can no longer wait for in Afghanistan. Travelling by truck, by boat, by train, by bus and on foot, Aryan and his younger brother Kabir have embarked on an epic journey, clinging to an itinerary they repeat like a mantra so as not to lose their way: Kabul-Tehran-Istanbul-Athens-Rome-Paris-London. There are moments of wonder and adventure but also battles against cold, heat, hunger, violence and exhaustion.
Chalkline. By Jane Mitchell The moving story of a Kashmiri boy soldier, from a prize-winning Irish author.
It s an ordinary morning at nine-year-old Rafiq s school in rural Kashmir when the silence of dawn prayers is ripped apart by gunfire. Soldiers of the Kashmir Freedom Fighters have raided the village in search of new recruits they scrawl a line in chalk across the schoolroom wall, and any boy whose height reaches the line will be taken to fight. Rafiq is tall for his age the first boy to cross the chalkline into a life of brutality and terrorism. This is the story of Rafiq s transformation from child to boy soldier, as he is indoctrinated into the cause of fanatical belief.
Endorsed by Amnesty International UK as contributing to a better understanding of human rights and the values that underpin them About the author. Broken Glass. Jameela. Diego! Run. The Castle.