Reading+Books

[|Expeditionary Learning]
==__What are your students reading?__ One of my former students' favorite books was //Iqbal// by Francesco D'Adamo. It is the story of a young man who fights against the injustices he faces from society in Pakistan. Here's a little teaser...== "There was a precise rule among us: Never talk about the future." The virtually enslaved children toiling for Hussain Khan in his carpet factory revise this thinking when a new child laborer named Iqbal arrives: he plans to liberate them all, a feat that he finally achieves with the help of the Bonded Labor Liberation Front of Pakistan. While pursuing freedom, he inspires his peers to join the cause: the kids create a diversion so that he can escape, and, ... - **Posted by Trish Moya, November, 2009**