“Child labor is a widespread issue with many causes. Poverty is the primary reason that children go to work. In developing countries, a child's wages—or the payment a parent receives for selling a child's services—may be necessary for the family's survival.” - Gale Student Resources. In the novel, Hidden Girl, written by Shymia Hall with Lisa Wysocky, Shymia Hall was sold into slavery at the age of eight in Egypt. She goes through a variety of distressing times. Shymia had been forced to work in slavery for the majority of her childhood but eventually gets transported to the United States to continue to work as a slave. But eventually, her nightmare of slavery had ended, after a bystander had saw signs of captivity and reported her case to
