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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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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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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Forging a deep friendship with impoverished but passionate fellow weaver Savitha, motherless Poornima begins to reconnect with the beauty of the world before a devastating act of cruelty drives her friend away, compelling her to leave behind everything she knows to search for her friend in the darkest corners of India's underworld and beyond. A first novel.
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Publisher
SilverOaks Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and homeless after a tsunami decimates their coastal India town, teenage sisters Ahalya and Sita Ghai are abducted and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner before they are helped by an American attorney fighting human trafficking.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Batuk, an Indian girl, is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution by her father; the blue notebook is her diary, in which she recalls her early childhood, records her life on the Common Street, and makes up beautiful and fantastic tales about a silver-eyed leopard and a poor boy who fells a giant with a single gold coin.--From publisher description.
Publisher
Yash Raj Films Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Hindi
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Kabir Khan knows what it's like to come back from the dead. The ex-Indian field hockey captain has now come back to the sport as the coach of the Indian Women's National Hockey team, a team that exists more on paper and less in reality. The girls have never known the thrilling energy of being Team India, but Kabir, once a captain, now forgotten, does. Despite his past, he believes that if only the girls played as one, anything could be possible.
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Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A[n] . . . illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving school when they reach puberty. No one in the village...
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