Title:
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LOST RIDERS
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By: |
Elizabeth Laird |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£4.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0230738931 |
ISBN 13: |
9780230738935 |
Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
28 March, 2013 |
Description: |
A hard-hitting, intensely moving novel about child slavery in the Middle East, from the Carnegie-shortlisted author of CRUSADE. |
Synopsis: |
Taken from their home in Pakistan to work in the Persian Gulf, eight-year-old Rashid and his little brother Shari cling to each other. Then they are separated and forced to become jockeys in the lucrative camel-racing business. Rashid is starved and worked to exhaustion by harsh supervisors - but he has a talent for racing and quickly becomes his stable's star jockey. Soon he begins to forget what life was like when he had a proper home. He almost begins to forget about Shari... |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Macmillan Children's Books |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |