This novel is an extremely powerful account of the life of Iqbal Masih. The story of this child laborer who works to free other children from this life is told through the eyes of Fatima, a child who supposedly worked with Iqbal in the carpet factory. Through making carpets, to extreme punishment in "the Tomb", to Iqbal's freedom and time with the Liberation Front of Pakistan, we learn about his courage and determination. The ending of the novel, with Iqbal's eventual death, may be too strong for some younger readers, but the way it is told to the reader is still very powerful. This book would be useful as a resource for a class studying the United Nations or the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.