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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 9 Up—Many reluctant readers won't be able to put down this riveting novel. Hannah, 17, grew up in Moldova seeing "You Are Not a Product" posters warning her about the trafficking of human beings. Nonetheless she still wants to try and make it to America to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor and sending back money to her grandmother, her only living relative. Using false documents and the instructions of an unsavory agent, Hann...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on February 1, 2012
After her parents are killed in a terrorist bombing and her uncle disappears, seventeen-year-old Hannah comes to Los Angeles from Moldova to be a nanny. She plans to take English classes, finish high school, get top grades, and go to medical school. Four hundred dollars a week plus room and board seems like a fortune to Hannah, but this is America, what does she know? Though Hannah's not a complete innocent: she's heard of the trafficking of Moldovan girls, has seen the anti-trafficking pos...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Seventeen-year-old Hannah comes to Los Angeles from Moldova to be a nanny but soon finds she isn't being paid for the l...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
