5.4.1 Iqbal 4-Pack
This book is the below-level title in the 5.4 Book Club Teacher's Guide, and is a historical fiction novel. Students will continue to think about the topic of child labor.
Blurb: When young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused children there. It is Iqbal who explains to them that despite their master’s promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinitely. But it is also Iqbal who inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil…and is brave enough to show them how to get there.
This moving fictionalized account of the real Iqbal Masih is told through the voice of Fatima, a young Pakistani girl whose life is changed by Iqbal’s courage.
Lexile Level: 750
Page Count: 121