Hurray for another Kiddie Lit book! Let's see, where should I start?
So my teacher pegged this one as a biography. Or maybe it's a memoir because those are fictional. And this book is completely fiction except for the basic outline. Strangely, I have no problem with this because the author really had no choice. Iqbal was a real person who... couldn't be interviewed. Um... So the author wrote about what he thought Iqbal's life would be like from the eyes of a girl around his age.
This book focuses on child labor/slavery/bond labor in Pakistan. Iqbal was a slave, not exactly but basically, and Fatima, the main character, was as well. Iqbal gives them hope and then he frees them and then he helps free other children and it's very uplifting and then I don't want to completely give away what happens. One last thing; this is actually a pretty non-graphic book considering its subject matter.
Criticisms: This is just my personal opinion--which is a dumb thing to say on a blog--but I think that authors need to be very careful when writing through the eyes of a main character who is the opposite gender. I started reading and the voice made me think the main character was a boy. I have nothing more bad to say. That I can think of. Right now. Honestly, I forgot about my blog and already gave it back to the library.
Rating: Pretty good.
Read again? Probably not but only because of the intended age group.
You read? If you want to. :) I'm really not passionate about it and there are other books you could find that would be better. But it wasn't bad.
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