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Boys without Names

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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. In this atmosphere of distrust and isolation, locked in a rundown building in an unknown part of the city, Gopal despairs of ever seeing his family again.

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. If he can make them feel more like brothers than enemies, their lives will be more bearable in the shop—and they might even find a way to escape.


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Publisher: HarperCollins

Kindle Book

  • Release date: January 19, 2010

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780061991882
  • Release date: January 19, 2010

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780061991882
  • File size: 353 KB
  • Release date: January 19, 2010

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Kindle Book
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English

Levels

ATOS Level:4.2
Lexile® Measure:670
Interest Level:4-8(MG)
Text Difficulty:2-3

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. In this atmosphere of distrust and isolation, locked in a rundown building in an unknown part of the city, Gopal despairs of ever seeing his family again.

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. If he can make them feel more like brothers than enemies, their lives will be more bearable in the shop—and they might even find a way to escape.


Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    HarperCollins

    Kindle Book
    Release date: January 19, 2010

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780061991882
    Release date: January 19, 2010

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780061991882
    File size: 353 KB
    Release date: January 19, 2010

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 4.2
    Lexile® Measure: 670
    Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    Text Difficulty: 2-3
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