Dirty Work

by Julia Bell

Book Overview

Hope Tasker, an upper-class girl from Britain, is sick of her petty friends and distracted parents. She just wants to be free, to have fun, to live a little. So when she meets a mysterious foreigner... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802797415
• ISBN13: 9780802797414
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Walker Childrens
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Courtesy of Teens Read Too

Hope never thinks anything interesting will happen in her life. She seems to be on the fast track to nowhere, and her parents despair of ever understanding her. She is jolted out of her quiet and idyllic life when she encounters Oksana, a Russian girl who has been sold as a sex slave. Hope's tentative friendship with Oksana leads to her own kidnapping by the owner Oksana is running from. These girls have only each other, and they will have to overcome their bitterness and prejudice and work together to escape from their captors. But will it be too late? DIRTY WORK is a riveting and captivating read. The pages go by quickly, and Ms. Bell keenly builds suspense throughout the entire book by interspersing flashbacks of Oksana's past in between telling the two girls' predicament. Without being inappropriate or too mature for teens, DIRTY WORK easily conveys the horrors of human trafficking and how very easy it is to get caught up in it. This terrifying, entrancing novel will certainly grab your attention, and won't let go until long after the book is finished. Reviewed by: The Compulsive Reader