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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure:
820L
Description
The powerful, poignant, bestselling National Book Award Finalist gives voice to a young girl robbed of her childhood yet determined to find the strength to triumphLakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt-then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave.Lakshmi's life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still, she lives by her mother's words-Simply to endure is to triumph-and gradually, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision-will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life? Written in spare and evocative vignettes by the co-author of I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition), this powerful novel renders a world that is as unimaginable as it is real, and a girl who not only survives but triumphs.
Subjects
Subjects
Child prostitution
Child prostitution -- India -- Fiction
Children's stories
Families
Families -- Fiction
Friendship
Friendship -- Fiction
Human trafficking
Human trafficking -- Fiction
India -- Fiction
Nepal -- Fiction
Novels in verse
Slavery
Slavery -- Fiction
Teenage girls
Teenage girls -- India -- Fiction
Young adult fiction
Young Adult Literature
Child prostitution -- India -- Fiction
Children's stories
Families
Families -- Fiction
Friendship
Friendship -- Fiction
Human trafficking
Human trafficking -- Fiction
India -- Fiction
Nepal -- Fiction
Novels in verse
Slavery
Slavery -- Fiction
Teenage girls
Teenage girls -- India -- Fiction
Young adult fiction
Young Adult Literature
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ISBN:
9780786851720
9781452690865
9781423141112
9781452690865
9781423141112
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5, 5 Points
Level 5, 5 Points
Lexile measure:
820L
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Grouped Work ID | 74618018-69e9-776f-aaa5-6513b65e8b4c |
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Grouping Title | sold |
Grouping Author | patricia mccormick |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2021-01-18 04:51:36AM |
Last Indexed | 2021-01-18 05:06:12AM |
Novelist Primary ISBN | 9780786851713 |
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auth_author2 | Eyre, Justine. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author | Patricia McCormick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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author_display | McCormick, Patricia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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display_description | Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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series | Junior Novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Child prostitution -- India -- Fiction Children's stories Families -- Fiction Friendship -- Fiction Human trafficking -- Fiction India -- Fiction Nepal -- Fiction Novels in verse Slavery -- Fiction Teenage girls -- India -- Fiction Young adult fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Sold | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Sold Sold / Patricia McCormick Sold [electronic resource] / Patricia McCormick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Sold | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Child prostitution Children's stories Families Friendship Human trafficking Novels in verse Slavery Teenage girls Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Literature |