Omg some they like this makes me want to read it so bad
Boys without Names
By Kashmira Sheth
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 3 - 5 | n/a | 4.2 | 71672 |
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.
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
ISBN-13: 9780061857621
ISBN-10: 0061857629
Published on 5/24/2011
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
Book Reviews (6)
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Boys Without Names by: Kashmira Sheth For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over:.We stay, we starve, his Baba has warned. 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. After he took the job he figured out why that was a bad decision. 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. I liked this book because it was very in depth but it was also sad how he tried to earn money for his family and now he is a slave. The type of reader that would like this book is someone who likes a sad story but a good story. The genre realistic fiction.
This is a very interesting book about a boy named Gopal whose family comes from a rural Indian village. They moved the Mumbai, a big city where Gopal ended up being kidnapped and sold into child labour to make beaded frames. In the book it describes his time there, bring beaten, attempting to gain the trust of the owner and leader, and also making friends with the others boys. The ending made me very happy to know that everything turned out alright. It is a very good read in my opinion.
Gopel and his family live in an rual Indian Village. 'We stay, we starve' his Baba had warned. So they must leave to Mumbai. The city is big, and soon Gople finds a boy who askes his he wants a job. Gople says yes and soon he is having tea with the boy. But he didn't notice the boys hand slip over Gople's cup and he feels very sleepy. When Gople wakes up, he is in a different room, like a factory with a very strange man...
interesting ive read books like this before
i've read this book but i think it is about people who live at dump sites and are poor but are great in heart but then someone finds something rare.