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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
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Powerful submitted by zmclaugh on July 30, 2018, 1:41pm Powerful, but not crude. This is an intense story about human trafficking.
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New York : Hyperion, 2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 263 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
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Lexile: 820
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0786851716
9780786851720
SUBJECTS
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Family problems -- Fiction.
Child prostitution -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.