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Trafficked

by Kim Purcell (Goodreads Author)

3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 · rating details · 593 ratings · 125 reviews

A 17-year-old Moldovan girl whose parents have been killed is brought to the United States to work as a slave for a family in Los Angeles.

Hannah believes she’s being brought from Moldova to Los Angeles to become a nanny for a Russian family. But her American dream quickly spirals into a nightmare. The Platonovs force Hannah to work sixteen-hour days, won’t let her leave th...more

Hardcover, 384 pages

Published February 16th 2012 by Viking Juvenile

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Mar 31, 2013 Jenny Sawyer rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Is there such a thing as a perfect book? I found myself going back and forth on this question as I tore through Trafficked.

Hannah, a teenager from Moldova, enters the US illegally to pursue her dream of learning English and becoming a doctor. She’s been promised $400 a week for her nannying job with a Russian family in Los Angeles, but things go south right from the start. (view spoiler)...more

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Dec 10, 2012 Lavinia rated it 2 of 5 stars

I was actually crestfallen after finishing this book. Okay, to be more specific, I was crestfallen even I was just a quarter through with this book.
When I first laid my eyes on such a mysterious cover of this book, I was just like, "Oh my goodness, I gotta read this." When I read the summary of this book, I immediately borrowed this book from the library. I had such great expectations of it.
I was expecting gore and violence, much of them. I was expecting hardcore politics and cruelty. However,...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Sara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Trafficked by Kim Purcell follows Hannah a girl from Moldova who travels to America to work as a Nanny. She takes the job after her parents disappear because she knows her grandmother can not support the two of them. She soon finds things are not as she was promised as the family she works for treats her like a slave, requiring her to work all hours without pay and without the ability to leave.

I enjoyed the book although the main character had issues at time with being very very naive. This book...more

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Sep 02, 2012 Barbara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: abusive-relationships, alcohol, bullies, families, friendship, immigration, languages, jobs, ncbla2013, poverty, travel

This gritty, powerful cautionary tale about Hannah, a seventeen-year-old from Moldava, who comes to the United States in search of a better life is downright scary and eye-opening. Hannah, of course, is naive in believing the lies she is told, but she is well-intentioned since she hopes to earn enough money to pay for her grandmother's eye surgery. The cash she dreams of never materializes, and the family with whom she stays keeps her locked in the garage. Basically, she has become a slave since...more

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Jun 27, 2012 Tana rated it 5 of 5 stars

Trafficked by Kim Purcell

Trafficked is a difficult subject to read about but so important that I couldn’t wait to sit down and read it. Kim Purcell has done an excellent job and I give her ton’s of credit for telling us this story even though it’s a fiction novel we all know this is happening today somewhere. Kim’s words flowed extremely well, character descriptions are written excellent, and I felt so much sorrow for what Hannah is going through. There were times I had to stop and remember thi...more

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Jun 08, 2012 Nicole rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-contemporary

Trafficked wasn't a book I originally planned on reading when it arrived in the mail; gritty contemporaries have never been up my alley. However, I agreed to moderate a panel with Kim Purcell (and Jennifer Castle and Nova Ren Suma), so I figured -- I had the book, why not read it?

I ended up really enjoying it, in the way that one can enjoy things that skeeve you out and make your skin crawl. Purcell does a fabulous job at managing to present Hannah's situation in a way that makes you understand...more

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Feb 14, 2012 Melanie Goodman added it

Seventeen-year-old Hannah travels from Moldova to America with fake documents to be a nanny for a Russian-American family. Hannah is told that in exchange for taking care of two children and some “light” cleaning, she’ll make $400 a week on top of room and board–plenty to pay for her babushka’s surgery in no time at all.

But America does not turn out to be the land of milk and honey after all. And Hannah does not find herself rolling in dough. Instead, after a torturous journey, Hannah is virtual...more Seventeen-year-old Hannah travels from Moldova to America with fake documents to be a nanny for a Russian-American family. Hannah is told that in exchange for taking care of two children and some “light” cleaning, she’ll make $400 a week on top of room and board–plenty to pay for her babushka’s surgery in no time at all.

But America does not turn out to be the land of milk and honey after all. And Hannah does not find herself rolling in dough. Instead, after a torturous journey, Hannah is virtually imprisoned in a house where she is forced to work long hours, enduring frequent verbal and physical abuse, for no pay. Hannah is told that she must work off the cost of her travel before she will receive any wages; it could be years before she makes any money at all. Not that she would be allowed to leave the house to spend it.

Hannah is caught up in a serious predicament with nobody to turn to for help. She is isolated in the house, not allowed to use the phone, and the family for whom she works refuses to mail the letters she writes to her family. Without money, the proper documents, or the ability to speak much English, Hannah has nowhere to go. Further, the family threatens to have her family and friends back home hurt if she tries to escape.

Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Hannah keeps hoping that if she just does her job well enough and long enough, the situation will improve. But what if it never gets any better after all?

Kim Purcell’s debut Trafficked is a bleak, but eye-opening book. Written in third person, Trafficked has a relatively matter-of-fact, straightforward style; there’s not a lot of fluff or adornment, which is fitting for the book’s emotional content. One should not begin this novel expecting any harsh realities to get sugarcoated or tied up neatly. While there is some hope to be had, the majority of the book is, in all honesty, a bit soul-crushing. And I mean that in the best way possible. I would expect no less from a book based on true stories about human trafficking. Trafficked has joined Want to go Private? and Room on the list of books about social issues that made me physically ill while reading.

It is utterly horrifying to think that this kind of modern-day slavery is going on underneath our noses all the time. If you think human trafficking is a thing of the past, or that it is restricted to any one cultural group, Trafficked will wake you up. Once you have been exposed to the real plight of trafficked teens and kids, it is hard to ignore. Trafficked is a book that makes you want to do something. Purcell’s book is at times graphic, intense, and emotionally charged. Though it is by no means easy to stomach, it is the perfect book for teens and adults interested in social awareness and injustice.(less)

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Dec 18, 2011 Suzanne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: for-slj

Was Hannah just naive when she decided to falsify her identity and travel to America to become a Nanny for a Russian American family, the Platonovs? She grew up in a marketplace with "You are Not a Product" slogans on posters to remind her what happens too often to attractive young girls who accept offers that sound too good to be true. $400 a month should be plenty for Hannah to send home to her grandmother for surgery. No other family survives who will help her, so she accepts and enters a nig...more Was Hannah just naive when she decided to falsify her identity and travel to America to become a Nanny for a Russian American family, the Platonovs? She grew up in a marketplace with "You are Not a Product" slogans on posters to remind her what happens too often to attractive young girls who accept offers that sound too good to be true. $400 a month should be plenty for Hannah to send home to her grandmother for surgery. No other family survives who will help her, so she accepts and enters a nightmare.

Even the journey to the Romanian airport was fraught with humilation, but nothing could prepare her for the abject slavery she faces in the nice surburban Los Angeles home, where she works for a jealous Russian woman desperate to pass tests for foreign trained doctors who needs Hannah to care for her toddler boy and 8-year-old girl while she studies. Lillian is very demanding, expecting Hannah up before and much later than the children to see to all the meals and to keep the house scrupulously clean. Hard work might not bother Hannah so much if she got any money to send her babushka, but there is no pay and only a furtive handful of trips outside the house that is her prison, her "room," the garage playroom of the children. Threatened with immigration if she goes to the authorities, she is threatened with the hippopotamus man Paavo, who runs unsavory businesses and keeps a stable of a whole different kind of eastern European slaves. If she can't keep Lillian happy and father Sergey out of her bed, she might fall into the clutches of Paavo and out of the frying pan and into the fire of a brothel existence.

The only window on the world lying just outside her prison is through the neighbor's windows. A blond boy named Colin and his brother and mother have a normal life just out of reach, and she takes risks to meet him.

Teen girl readers will eat up the angst and pitiful situation of a girl in this sensationalized exploitation. It is a little bit of rubber-necking to see just what horrors happen to Hannah and girls like her, but it is an issue worth knowing about; and if it makes comfortable American girls a little more thankful for the easy life so many of them have, that's an additional benefit. Recommend to fans of SOLD, maybe Ellen Hopkins, or the morbidly fascinated legions drawn to A CHILD CALLED IT.(less)

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Feb 17, 2012 Kelly Hager rated it 4 of 5 stars

Hannah is a 17-year-old Moldovan girl. She's coming to the US to work as a nanny for a family with two young children and will make $400 a week, plus room and board. It sounds like a pretty sweet set-up, right? Except it's not true. Well, she's a nanny and she gets room and board. But she's also forced to work for free (to pay off the debt of getting her into the country) and told that if she leaves the house or talks to anyone without permission, she'll be deported or thrown in jail. Later, she...more

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Apr 27, 2013 Jada Bennett rated it 4 of 5 stars

So I'd just finished up a book in the middle of reading class, and having nothing else to read at the moment due to my horrible overestimating of the length left of the former book, my teacher soon realizes that I would need a new book to start ASAP. Scribbling down a title and her signature, the teacher hands me a library pass and quickly asks me if I'd read the book "Trafficked". And not having done so, I got my mitts on it almost immediately.
A week or two before this incident, that same teach...more So I'd just finished up a book in the middle of reading class, and having nothing else to read at the moment due to my horrible overestimating of the length left of the former book, my teacher soon realizes that I would need a new book to start ASAP. Scribbling down a title and her signature, the teacher hands me a library pass and quickly asks me if I'd read the book "Trafficked". And not having done so, I got my mitts on it almost immediately.
A week or two before this incident, that same teacher had actually already talked about this book in class and I had jotted it down onto my summer reading list, thinking it was a historical fiction story from what the teacher had described. I quickly realized though, that it's more of a realistic fiction story.
So the usual genre confusion on my part out of the way, I actually liked this book more than I thought I would before (or even during) reading it.
It circles around Hannah, a Moldovian teenage girl who gets a job as a nanny in America for a Russian family. Hannah herself is a character that I felt sorry for, yet found myself nearly screaming at. I really don't even have a good reason for slightly disliking her, as she is a scared girl in a new, foreign, unknowingly dangerous world. I actually don't hate her, or even dislike her as much as I'm making it sound. My biggest problem with Hannah is that she assumes things about people too quickly. She immediately assumes Sergey might be a bad guy and that his wife (Who screams at Hannah and her own daughter within the same chapter she first appears in for throwing out an ice cream bar), Lillian is a sweet, kind woman. There are other characters that she correctly assumes upon, like Paavo, but at a certain point I was just expecting the worst to happen whenever Hannah thought someone was nice.
Now, I really should add this in before I go any further: Hannah is a struggling girl with worsening circumstances around her, which is why I feel bad about disliking her for this. But still, I feel as if after a certain point she should expect that her own nose is more accurate than anyone elses.
Besides my minor issue with the main heroin, I still liked the book. It's very well-written, and despite the fact that Hannah's stuck in a house, the author does a very good job of moving the plot quickly and keeping it interesting without it feeling rushed or bloated.
Overall, good, serious book that probably only someone like me who reads too much into things can find a fault with. If you like how it sounds, go read it for yourself :)(less)

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Nov 20, 2012 Kristin rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book. It brings a serious issue to light that many people are unaware of- human trafficking. Since slavery is banned from America, thousands of Americans are naive to human trafficking. Just five years ago, Seattle was the largest port for the U.S. with L.A and New York not far behind.

Trafficked is the story of Hannah who is given fake documents to come work in America as a "nanny" after her parents were recently killed in a bombing. Hannah was under the impression she woul...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Melissa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

This mature YA novel deals with the extremely gritty subject of human trafficking. Hannah, 17, naively thinks that she is going from Moldova to America to work as a nanny and housekeeper for $400 a week. Her parents are dead, her uncle is gone, and her grandmother needs cataract surgery. Hannah and her grandmother are barely surviving, and this extra money will be very helpful. Hannah wants to learn to speak better English and someday be a doctor. This job in America will help her do that. Hanna...more

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Sep 15, 2012 Samantha rated it 4 of 5 stars

Trafficked, by Kim Purcell, made me furious—in a good way. In a "hey-let's-all-go-out-into-the-community-and-spread-awareness-about-human-trafficking-in-the-United-States-because-yes-it-does-go-on-here" kind of way, which is what the author's intentions were, no doubt.

Trafficked isn't about sexual slavery; rather it's more about domestic slavery. In Kim Purcell's Author's Note at the end of the book, Purcell states that trafficked people are "hidden in warehouses, brothels, and regular American...more Trafficked, by Kim Purcell, made me furious—in a good way. In a "hey-let's-all-go-out-into-the-community-and-spread-awareness-about-human-trafficking-in-the-United-States-because-yes-it-does-go-on-here" kind of way, which is what the author's intentions were, no doubt.

Trafficked isn't about sexual slavery; rather it's more about domestic slavery. In Kim Purcell's Author's Note at the end of the book, Purcell states that trafficked people are "hidden in warehouses, brothels, and regular American neighborhoods," the last fact being chilling because you, dear reader, could have a "Hannah" living in the house next to you.

I feel this way because Kim Purcell has injected her little gem with what I like to call "Emoto-juice," a serum powerful enough to make even the coldest of people emote. The serum is released by unfortunate happenstances when god-awful things happen to a character who does not deserve those awful things to happen to them.

I'd love to provide you with examples from Trafficked, but each misfortunate happenstance is a spoiler in a way, because through inference and prediction you'd know what would happen (and I'm sure you'd figure it out, because the characters are quite predictable. Concerning the predictability of the plot...

The beginning and end were predictable, but the meat of the story wasn't. The web of plot points was made up of lies and those lies kept being rewritten and rewritten until I was slightly lost in the plot. Some points just didn't seem to make sense, or add up. I was content with the ending because I felt like it left a lot of loose ends lying around, and I wanted to know exactly what would happen.

Even though Hannah could be naive sometimes, she deserves the Badge of Courage. She's beautiful, not much of a physical fighter, but she is a psychological fighter with great intelligence and wits about her. She never, ever cries or yells or talks back because she rightly knows it gives the bully satisfaction. She creates a docile facade she uses around her employer, but she was always buzzing with emotion and thoughts under the surface. Even though it was just as easy for Hannah to numb her emotions and become part of the living dead, she refused to do so.(less)

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May 27, 2012 Carly rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: reading-for-library

I have to say this book was a real disappointment. My friend borrowed it and was reading it while I was playing some good ole Outdoor Recreation hockey. When I finished she'd read about four chapters. I asked what had happened and she said nothing. This was basically what the entire story was like: Nothing happened. I think the author was trying to add suspense with all the stuff going on with her parents and uncle, but it didn't work. It was a very bland book and I'm ashamed to say I just want...more

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Feb 27, 2012 Diana Renn rated it 5 of 5 stars

I devoured most of this book on an airplane flight and later stayed up half the night to finish. Teens and adults alike will be captivated by the plight of Hannah, an illegal immigrant from Moldova, who works as a nanny for a family in Los Angeles. Grueling hours, no pay, social isolation, and accommodations in a garage -- despite an inviting and unoccupied guest room upstairs -- are only some of the travails she encounters; the job gradually spirals into a living nightmare and Hannah's life is...more

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Jan 29, 2012 Mrs. ReaderPants rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2012, 5-stars, pub-date-2012

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Beautifully written with plenty of action, Trafficked hooks readers quickly and keeps them riveted all the way to the heart-pounding finale. Hannah is a believable and sympathetic protagonist, but she is also strong-willed and determined to escape her dire situation. It is easy to see how despite being warned all her life about human trafficking, Hannah is excited for the opportunity to work in America--after all, it's a suburb in AMERICA. Hannah i...more More reviews at http://readerpants.blogspot.com.

Beautifully written with plenty of action, Trafficked hooks readers quickly and keeps them riveted all the way to the heart-pounding finale. Hannah is a believable and sympathetic protagonist, but she is also strong-willed and determined to escape her dire situation. It is easy to see how despite being warned all her life about human trafficking, Hannah is excited for the opportunity to work in America--after all, it's a suburb in AMERICA. Hannah is used to working hard, and there are laws against human trafficking in America, right? The villains, particularly Paavo and Lillian, represent evil at its purest; like Hannah, readers will suck in their breath when Paavo or Lillian enter the room.

I actually expected the children, Maggie and Michael, to be spoiled and mean-spirited, but like Hannah, they are innocent victims of Lillian's cycle of wrath and neglect. I especially appreciate how Colin, the teen boy next door, is not described as a drop-dead gorgeous, fearless hero (as the boy so often is in YA books). Although his life is not nearly as complex as Hannah's, he is a normal American teenager who has problems and insecurities of his own. Colin's frustrations with his parents contrasts with Hannah's constant struggle to keep her mind and body intact, which may cause American teens to question whether their own family situations are really as bad as they make them out to be.

An author's note at the end includes statistics about human trafficking and lists resources for further information.

Middle school librarians, the sexual content is, in my opinion, too high for the general collection. I am pretty liberal with the books I buy for the library, and I do not plan to include this one.

For high school librarians, I recommend it highly. It will be easy to "sell" to students, including reluctant readers. High school librarians concerned about the sexual content might want to read it first, but if I were a high school librarian, I would definitely include it. Teens need to be aware that human trafficking occurs and that situations that seem "too good to be true" probably are.

READALIKES: Nanny Diaries (Emma McLaughlin); Sold (Patricia McCormick)

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Feb 09, 2013 Yebin rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-7th-grade

Human Trafficking-sounds like a faraway Southeast Asian story that you sometimes see on CNN? Sorry to say, but it also includes USA on the list.
Most people don't know about human trafficking in the United States. Most people trafficked to the states are East Europeans and Hispanics-like Hannah, the main character of this book.
Hannah is a girl with big dreams from Moldova, one of the poorest ex-Soviet Union countries. Dreaming of a better chance in life after her parents' tragic death, Hannah is...more

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Mar 11, 2012 Rebecca Buerkett rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is the story of a teenaged girl from Moldova who, when orphaned and facing an uncertain future at home, signs on to be a nanny for a Russian family in America. She quickly realizes that her situation is not what she expected when the family takes away her return plane ticket, instructs her not to leave the house or speak to anyone without permission, and makes her work from dawn until the wee hours of the morning. She is in essence a modern-day slave, kept in line with lies and fear for her...more

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Jun 14, 2012 Megan rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book took some time for me to get into,but after a while I didn't want to out it down! I was captivated by Hannah's story. The details of her family and her life in Moldova were well written, loved, and insightful. In contrast with the horrors she faced once getting to America. I found it awful and shocking that so many people are trafficked into the US yearly. The book depicted the terror that the victims feel being enslaved, but perhaps even worse is being trapped and frightened into beli...more

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Jan 11, 2013 bjneary rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: kindle, psla-2013, realistic-fiction, ya, multicultural-fiction

Hannah is a seventeen year old from Moldova who has lost both her parents in a bombing. She is brought to the United States by an “agent” and believes she will make $400 per week watching children and going to school to learn English and finish her education. This book shows slowly but surely how Hannah learns the real truth behind her trip to the United States. She toils long days doing housework and watching Maggie and Michael while their mother studies to become a doctor. Her husband Sergey i...more

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Jun 19, 2012 E. Bard rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites-ya

It's difficult to rate this well told story about such an important subject when the ratings are based on how much a reader enjoys the book. Human trafficking isn't a subject anyone can enjoy. However, this book does a very good job of exposing human trafficking in one of the least expected places: an average American neighbourhood. The author has also done an amazing job of bringing this problem to light for the YA audience. While the story is horrifying and there is content that might be more...more It's difficult to rate this well told story about such an important subject when the ratings are based on how much a reader enjoys the book. Human trafficking isn't a subject anyone can enjoy. However, this book does a very good job of exposing human trafficking in one of the least expected places: an average American neighbourhood. The author has also done an amazing job of bringing this problem to light for the YA audience. While the story is horrifying and there is content that might be more suited for a mature teen audience, the author has done an excellent job of presenting it.

Trafficked is the story of seventeen year old Hannah who is given the opportunity to go to America and work as a nanny for a Russian family. From the very beginning (i.e. her meeting with the 'bad' agent) Hannah has a terrible experience but remains hopeful when she finally arrives in America. In only a matter of weeks she realizes her dream of making a new life is shattered. Beyond the endless hard work she does for the family, she has no freedom and faces regular mental/emotional abuse from the mother in the family. After several months her situation escalates to the point where she may not just lose all hope of a life in America, she may in fact lose her life.

The story has a measured pace and I think, very well developed characters. Hannah is naive and realizes it, but she has hidden strength. Oddly, the adult family members (Lillian, Sergey)and even their friends/associates (Paavo, Rena)seem realistic (for villains). They're all monsters, yet don't view themselves that way. It's easy to get emotionally involved when reading.

I do recommend this book. I think it is unique as a YA read and very worthwhile. Luckily, the book arrived on my doorstep on my day off so I had the opportunity to sit down and read it. It only took me a few hours and I didn't put it down. This is a book for more serious reading and I imagine the reality is far worse than Hannah's story. It's definitely worth picking up. I'm undecided on an actual star rating - I give it five for the author's skill in turning this subject into a young adult read and bringing much needed attention to it.(less)

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May 10, 2012 Drelyn( i ♥ The Hunger Games) Cotton rated it 5 of 5 stars

OMG. Amazing
Honestly, I love this book. It was truly perfect. Basically it's about this girl named Hannah who is from Moldova- one of the poorest cities in Europe. she's seventeen ( yadi yadi yah). Well she was offered a job. To move to Los Angeles to work as a nanny for a russian family.
She took it, mainly to help her Grandma who needed to have surgery. Another reason she took it was because she was told that she would get paid four hundred dollars a week plus english classes.

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Jan 14, 2013 Candi Vaughn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Trafficked is a good solid read. There are no raging sections but the author has developed the characters will and you feel the emotions during the development of the plot. Hannah is a young girl from Moldova who is recruited to be a nanny for an American family. Both of her parents have been killed and she wants to go to earn money to help her grandmother. She is promised 400.00 per week but upon arriveing in America, all of her money, return plane ticket are taken and she is forced to work 14...more

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Aug 23, 2012 Natashia Duncan rated it 3 of 5 stars

I began reading this book with the assumption that Hannah was being forced into sex-trafficking and prostitution. So, I was confused when I was over halfway through the book and she still hadn't left the house! I was a bit disappointed that the book didn't turn out how I expected it to, however, overall, the story was good. I loved the character development, and there were several suspenseful parts that had me reading faster and faster and faster until I had no choice but to force myself to cove...more

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Apr 29, 2013 ♥Jay♥Bookworm23♥ rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

I was just wandering around the library when the cover of this book stood out to me, and I wanted to read it as soon as I seen it.

A very emotional story about a girl who was trafficked into L.A to work for a family. She thought she'd be getting $400 a week, which turned out to be a lie and she was slave-driven. This book stunned me with the reality of it. Hundreds of people all over the world find themselves in situations like this and they're so helpless.

I felt so sorry for Hannah, for everyth...more

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Feb 21, 2012 Courtney Whitefield rated it 4 of 5 stars

Gosh, how do rate a book like this? Its odd to say, "Yes, I loved this book" when I felt like I was being punched in the chest throughout the entire thing. I am not saying that this is a bad novel by any means, but boy was it scary. Scary because of its brutal honesty. I don't know that I'll read another book like this, because quite frankly I feel terrible. Granted, I understand that this is meant to bring awareness to the situation, but I'm not quite sure that it should fall under the YA categ...more

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Feb 20, 2012 Frishawn Rasheed rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a very difficult read, given the seriousness of the subject matter and its societal relevance. This story is a fictionalized version of tales ripped from the headlines of newspapers nationwide.
Readers hearts will go out to young Hanna, a girl who though continually faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, still finds a way to maintain her integrity, spirit, and sanity.

The appalling behavior of the adults in this book in regard to Hannah and their pitiful attempts to justify and hide th...more

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Mar 31, 2012 Emily Brown (TheBrownReviews) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: reads-of-2012, favorites

Concept/Ideas: 4/5
Storyline/Plot: 4/5
Characters: 4/5
Writing Style: 5/5
Overall Rating: 5/5 stars

Amazing book. Definitely reccommend it right of the bat. Why? Because it's about an important issue: Human Trafficking. The book was great. It also was well written, and totally pulls you in from page one. We need more books like this out there on the market. Real books about real issues...

The writing was good, the plotline was pretty fast progressive, and I really felt for the main character Hannah....more

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Jul 04, 2012 Soapykitty rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: library-book, favorites

This was such a painful book to read.Poor Hannah is tormented by the flirty husband,the jealous wife,and their pervy friend.The only pleasure she has is watching the neighbor boy nd his family. It's scary to think that thousands of people,like Hannah,are trapped in America like this,and it's mind boggling that millions,maybe even billions are scattered all over the world.
I also reccomend the book Sold by Patricia McCormick.It's about a teenage girl from Nepal who is sold to an Indian brothel by...more

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Apr 18, 2012 Annie Oosterwyk rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: colonialism-and-slavery, coming-of-age, social-psychology

This book made it seem plausible that a young girl with no opportunity of a good life in her home country would take a chance at coming to America to work as a nanny. The abuse Hannah endures at every stage of her journey (including her interrogation by the police in her home state of Moldova) shows just how powerless young girls are. It is not only the men who take advantage of Hannah. The women involved in trafficking are just as abusive. I am glad to see that human trafficking stories are bec...more

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