Hidden girl : the true story of a modern-day child slave
(2014)
By:
Hall, Shyima
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN/362.77/HALL,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2014
EDITION
First Edition
DESCRIPTION
232 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781442481688 (hc.), 1442481684 (hc.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The author, Shyima Hall was eight when her parents sold her into slavery. In Egypt's capitol city of Cairo, she lived with a wealthy family and served them eighteen hours a day, seven days a week. When she was ten, her captors moved to Orange County, California, and smuggled Shyima with them. Two years later, an anonymous call from a neighbor brought about the end of Shyimas' servitude-- but her journey to true freedom was far from over. Now a US citizen, she regularly speaks out about human trafficking and candidly reveals how she overcame her harrowing circumstances
Grade 9 to 12
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