Dimensions
130 x 196 x 19mm
A hard-hitting and intensely moving novel about child slavery in the Middle East from the Carnegie-shortlisted author of Crusade.
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...
Ages 9-11
