Puffin Books Amal Unbound

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Book Review- Amal Unbound by Aisha SaeedWow! an excellent read for the youngsters, a beautiful story of resilience and perseverance dealing with a wide variety of difficult issues like gender bias, education for girls, servitude, feudal system, debt trap, etc being faced by many countries in the world. It is a great story which makes us aware that these evil practices still prevail in the society and equal access to education and opportunities is the only solution.This book helps in understanding the importance of what we take for granted and others wish for, they have to fight for equality of opportunity and choices in life.

I can’t rave enough about this book! Read it to my Grade 5 students this fall as apart of the GRA. They loved it! Excellent imagery and word choice that allow students to connect with a young Pakistani girl. There are numerous free and paid lesson plans available online and through the author’s website. I would love to read more books by her or even a sequel !

The book was well written and a good read. I’m planning to read it to my class for the global read aloud. It is interesting and will provoke rich conversations. As it is told from the perspective of a what a girl’s life is like in Pakistan it is lacking in male characters which may result in some boys not being interested.

It is such a beautiful and moving book about the cruelty towards the children and lower class people. This book has an amazing emotional connection with all the readers and once you start reading it You cannot put the book down even for a second 😀