Lost Riders

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.

Written by:
Elizabeth Laird
Published by:
Macmillan
Year:
2009

ISBN:
978-0330452090
Age groups:
Teens
Categories:
Fiction
Languages:
English
Themes:
Animals, Family, Other people/places, Slavery