Lost Riders - Hardcover

Elizabeth Laird

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230528953 ISBN 13: 9780230528956

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, 2008

Synopsis

Taken to work in a strange country, 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...

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Laird has been nominated four times for the Carnegie Medal and has won both the Smarties Prize and the Children’s Book Award. She and her husband divide their time between Richmond, Surrey and Edinburgh.

Review:

"From a highly respected author whose books consistently expose political and social injustice comes this gut-wrenching story about modern-day slavery. The story is meticulously researched."  —The Good Book Guide

"It is a tough book but the children feel real, there is light and shade and, at the very end, a homecoming."  —Carousel Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0230528953
• ISBN 13: 9780230528956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304