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On january 21, 2014, hidden girl was published by simon and schuster. The true story of a modernday child slave shyima was rescued from four years of child slavery at the age of twelve, and has since created her own free life and done all she could to help others avoid her fate. United states court of appeals for the ninth circuit 3,461 views. Images courtesy of publishers, organizations, and sometimes their twitter handles. Dont let the bfyr books for young readers label on hidden girl. When shyima hall was eight years old, her impoverished parents sold her to pay a debt. Girl sold by parents, enslaved in irvine for years, is hidden. Hall s book details her life from before her capture up until obtaining citizenship.
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She had all the toes on one of her feet cut off from jumping onto a sharp object, and she had to have them stitched on without amnesia, she says that up to this day only 2 of them work. An inspiring and compelling memoir from a young woman who lost her childhood to slaveryand built a new life grounded in. Halls book details her life from before her capture up until obtaining citizenship. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. The reality, the scope and the consequences duration.
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