Boys Without Names

I tend to be reading kind of heavy fiction lately. First A Million Shades of Gray, and now Boys Without Names, by Kashmira Sheth. But it's just so good, I have to talk about it. This is another one that I wouldn't recommend for anyone under like 4th or 5th grade.


Gopal and his family live in a small village in India and have lost their farm. They are forced to move to the big city to avoid their creditors. After having a roof over his head his whole life, he is forced to live on the streets and beg with his family to try to get enough money to get to his uncle's house in the city. While trying to find a way to help, he is lured away from his family. He ends up a prisoner with several other boys, forced to make beaded frames, with the threat of physical punishment and loss of food and water if he doesn't go fast enough.

Will Gopal find a way to get away from the factory? Will he ever see his family again? What will become of him and the other boys in the factory?

You know how to find out...