Boys without Names

Kashmira Sheth

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HarperCollins Childrens Book Group
01 September 2011

Children's & Educational; General fiction (Children's&YA); Social issues (Children's&YA)

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, 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 each other 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.

Then late one night, when Gopal decides to share kahanis, or stories, he realizes that storytelling might be the key to the boys’ 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.

By: Kashmira Sheth
Imprint: HarperCollins Childrens Book Group
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 194mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 211g
ISBN: 9780061857621
ISBN 10: 0061857629
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 September 2011
Recommended Age: From 8 to 12 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Boys without Names

Boys Without Names is not a heartbreaking story, even if there are moments that break the heart. Instead, it is a story about growing up, about learning and relearning the meaning of family. This is one of the best books I've read this year.--Jacqueline Woodson, author of the Newbery Honor book After Tupac and D Foster

Short-listed for Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2014
Winner of Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice (United States).
Winner of Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice (United States).
Winner of Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) (United States).

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