Amal unbound /
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TextPublication details: Melbourne : Text Publishing Company, 2018Description: 240 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925773026 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Indentured servants -- Pakistan -- Juvenile fiction | Children -- Pakistan -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Children's stories. | Fiction 9+. | General.DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: 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.
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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.