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Amal unbound / Aisha Saeed.
Life is quiet and ordinary in Amal's Pakistani village, but she had no complaints, and besides, she's busy pursuing her dream of becoming a teacher one day. Her dreams are temporarily dashed when--as the eldest daughter--she must stay home from school to take care of her siblings. Amal is upset, but she doesn't lose hope and finds ways to continue learning. Then the unimaginable happens--after an accidental run-in with the son of her village's corrupt landlord, Amal must work as his family's servant to pay off her own family's debt.Life at the opulent Khan estate is full of heartbreak and struggle for Amal--especially when she inadvertently makes an enemy of a girl named Nabila. Most troubling, though, is Amal's growing awareness of the Khans' nefarious dealings. When it becomes clear just how far they will go to protect their interests, Amal realizes she will have to find a way to work with others if they are ever to exact change in a cruel status quo, and if Amal is ever to achieve her dreams.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399544682
- ISBN: 0399544682
- Physical Description: 226 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Award Winner |
Target Audience Note: | 10-13 years HL600L Lexile Decoding demand: 94 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 85 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.2 6 194712. |
Awards Note: | Amelia Bloomer Book List, 2019 Mark Twain award nominee 2020-2021. |
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Subject: | Indentured servants > Fiction. Families > Pakistan > Fiction. Courage > Fiction. Conduct of life > Fiction. Pakistan > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. |