Homeless bird
Record details
- ISBN: 0064408191 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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186 p. ; 19 cm. - Edition: 1st Harper Trophy ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperTrophy, 2001.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | From the Publisher: Gloria Whelan's National Book Award-winning novel chronicles the breathtaking story of a remarkable young woman who dares to defy fate. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly faces her arranged marriage with hope and courage. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled; her life has been sold for a dowry. In prose both graceful and unflinching, this powerful novel relays the story of a rare young woman, who even when cast out into a brutal current of time-worn tradition, sets out to forge her own remarkable future. Inspired by a newspaper article about real teenage widows in India today. |
Awards Note: | Nutmeg Award Nominee, [Intermediate], 2003. National Book Award Winner, Young People's, 2000. |
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Subject: | Arranged marriage India Juvenile fiction Young women India Juvenile fiction Courage Fiction India Fiction |
Topic Heading: | Thomaston 2009 Grade 7 Summer Reading NUTMEG NOMINEE 2003 |
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