Overview
A brilliant book about diversity, privilege, girls and womens'' status, education, corruption and oppression, but also about a girl with a mission.
Amal''s dreams of becoming a teacher one day are temporarily dashed when - as the eldest daughter - she must stay home from school to take care of her siblings. Amal is upset, but she doesn''t lose hope and finds ways to continue learning. Then the unimaginable happens - after an accidental run-in with the son of her village''s corrupt landlord, Amal must work as his family''s servant to pay off her own family''s debt. After inadvertently making an enemy of a girl named Nabila Amal realises she will have to find a way to work with others if they are ever to exact change in a cruel status quo.
- | Author: Aisha Saeed
- | Publisher: Text Publishing
- | Publication Date: May 28, 2018
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781925773026
- | ISBN-10: 1925773027