Alaina's Reviews > Yasmin's Hammer

This book is about a family from Bangladesh who are forced off their rice field farm because of a tropical storm. Their move to the big city has the daughters having to work in a brick hammering jobs as children. I liked the pictures and seeing the perspective of longing to be able to go to school. Our kids so many times take education for granted.
Although the book is very positive and ends on a good note... the truth many times is the "bosses" of these brick and match making places has hired "bond servants" and rarely actually pay them. It is very rare that they get out and move to a better job.