Amal Unbound

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Description

Aisha Saeed’s middle-grade debut tells the compelling story of a girl’s fight to regain her life and dreams after being forced into indentured servitude.

Life is quiet and strange in Amal’s Pakistani village, but she had no complaints, and but even so, she’s busy pursuing her dream of becoming a teacher someday. Her dreams are temporarily dashed when–as the eldest daughter–she should stay home from school to deal with her siblings. Amal is upset, but she doesn’t lose hope and finds how you can continue learning. Then the impossible happens–after an accidental run-in with the son of her village’s corrupt landlord, Amal should work as his family’s servant to pay off her own family’s debt.

Life at the opulent Khan estate is full of heartbreak and struggle for Amal–especially when she inadvertently makes an enemy of a girl named Nabila. Most troubling, though, is Amal’s growing awareness of the Khans’ nefarious dealings. When it becomes clear just how far they’re going to go to offer protection to their interests, Amal realizes she must find a way to work with others if they are ever to exact change in a cruel status quo, and if Amal is ever to achieve her dreams.

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