Bibliograph

Hidden girl, the true story of a modern-day child slave, Shyima Hall with Lisa Wysocky

Type

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Hidden girl, the true story of a modern-day child slave, Shyima Hall with Lisa Wysocky

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Grade 9 to 12

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hidden girl

Responsibility statement

Shyima Hall with Lisa Wysocky

Sub title

the true story of a modern-day child slave

Summary

The author relates how she was sold by poor parents into slavery and forced to endure brutal servitude in California until a neighbor's anonymous call to the police began her journey to freedom and her subsequent efforts to fight for child slavesShyima Hall was eight when her parents sold her into slavery. In Egypt's capitol city of Cairo, she lived with a wealthy family and serve them eighteen hours a day, seven days a week. When she was ten, her captors moved to Orange County, California, and smuggled Shyima with them. Two years later, an anonymous call from a neighbor brought about the end of Shyimas' servitude-- but her journey to true freedom was far from over. Now a US citizen, she regularly speaks out about human trafficking and candidly reveals how she overcame her harrowing circumstances

Target audience

adolescent

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