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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Author
Publisher
Shared Hope International
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
To millions of Americans, the trafficking of children for commercial sexual purposes only happens somewhere else - in Southeast Asia or Central America - not on main Street USA. Yet, it is abundantly clear that today at least 100,000 children are being used as commodities for sale or trade in cites across the nation. These kids are 21st Century slaves. They cannot walk away.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Language
English
Description
Born in a Cambodian village, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather at age twelve. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. She suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking--rape, torture, deprivation--until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but...
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Katariina Rosenblatt was a lonely and abused young girl, yearning to be loved, wanting attention. That makes her the perfect target. On an ordinary day, she met a confident young woman -- someone Kat wished she could be like -- who pretended to be a friend while slowly luring her into a child trafficking ring. A cycle of false friendships, threats, drugs and violence kept her trapped. As Kat shares her harrowing experiences, her ultimate escape, and...
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