Keeping Corner
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In India in the 1940's, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.
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Keeping Corner submitted by Commander Taffy on July 22, 2011, 8:52am Keeping Corner is an amazing work of ingenuity and imagination.
PUBLISHED
New York : Hyperion, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 281 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 760
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0786838590 (reinforced) :
9780786838592 (reinforced) :
SUBJECTS
Gandhi, -- Mahatma, -- 1869-1948 -- Fiction.
Family life -- India -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Child marriage -- Fiction.
Women's rights -- Fiction.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Fiction.