Showing posts with label Child workers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Child workers. Show all posts
Monday, May 4, 2026

The Day of Ahmed's Secret by Florence Parry Heide illustrated by Ted Lewin

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Image from this video  (well worth watching) "Today I have a secret, and all day long my secret will be like a friend to me. Tonight I ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll illustrated by Lauren Child

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  Bridie Sweeney wants to tell you a better story, a more truthful story, a less tragic story about the real little match girl. The year is ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

My Friend the Octopus by Lindsay Galvin illustrated by Gordy Wright

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"I peered into the top of the hollow pearl. A glint so bright it was as if sunbeams had been captured and sealed inside." Vinnie (...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Ajay and the Mumbai Sun by Varsha Shah

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Ajay is an orphan who lives at a large railway station. People discard newspapers and Ajay has used these, firstly to learn how to read, but...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

I like, I don't like by Anna Baccelliere illustrated by Ale Ale

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Every child in the world has the right: to have a family to play to receive an education to be taken care of to be comforted to not be mistr...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop

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Publisher blurb:  1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mo...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

A Cardboard Palace by Allayne L Webster

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  Jorge has been trafficked as a very young child. He is now forced to work for a gang of thieves working the streets and popular tourist si...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Girl of the Southern Sea by Michelle Kadarusman

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"All you see is a poor girl ... A girl without power of choices. But you are wrong.  I am here to live a different story. I am here to ...