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Boys Without Names

By: Kashmira Sheth
Narrated by: Neil Shah
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Trapped.

For 11-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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I really enjoyed most of the book-the story was fast paced and never boring. It gave a realistic look into the life of people in difficult situation’s.

Great read for a teen boy

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Amazing book! It definitely should be turned into a movie!!! If you like an inspiring story of people from 3 world countries, and slaves breaking free this is for you!!

The insane turn after chapter 9 that took the rest of the plot!

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It was very brining nothing that exciting very basic and not that cool I would not read it agin

Not the exciting

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