Book
Boys without Names
- Published
- 2010
- Genre
- Fiction
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Pages
- 316
- Words
- 71672
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6580712-boys-without-names?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_18
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.2
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 670L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 9–14
For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve, his baba has warned. So they must 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 but, instead, 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.
Collections
The Good & The Beautiful · 6
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780061991882
- ISBN-10
- 0061991880
Tags
AdventureAdventure-SurvivalCommunityFamily LifeIndiaRealistic FictionThe Good & The Beautiful