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bkwrm127's review
4.0
We think we have come so far in human rights and child protection, and then we hear something like this. This story was inspired by the true story of Iqbal Masih from Pakistan. Nadeem is enslaved with other children in a carpet factory. He is inspired to help himself and the other children in the factory when he meets Iqbal who tells him he is free, that child slavery was made illegal. Like the main character, Iqbal was bonded by his parents to a carpet maker, forced to work twelve hour days for six years under terrible conditions. He escaped and began working to help other children learn their rights. In 1995 at the age of twelve, Iqbal was shot while riding his bike home one day. The book contains information in the back on Iqbal's life, his work and the work of other child advocates, the United Nations and "The Rights of the Child" and more about child labor issues.
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