Lost Riders
Author(s): Elizabeth Laird
Taken from their home in Pakistan to work in the Persian Gulf, eight-year-old 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.
Product Information
"It is a tough book but the children feel real, there is light and shade and, at the very end, a homecoming." "Carousel Magazine""
Elizabeth Laird has been nominated five times for the Carnegie Medal and has won many awards, including the Children's Book Award. She and her husband divide their time between London and Edinburgh.
General Fields
- :
- : Pan Macmillan
- : Macmillan Children's Books
- : 0.249
- : 01 May 2009
- : 197 x 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Elizabeth Laird
- : Paperback
- : Unabridged
- : 823.914
- : 304p[p
- : maps
