A powerful novel written in vignettes about a a Nepalese girl who risks everything for a chance to reclaim her life.Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though they are desperately poor, Lakshmi's life is full of simple pleasures: playing hopscotch with her best friend, looking after her black-and-white speckled goat, having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when Lakshmi's family lose all that remains of their crops in a monsoon, her stepfather says she must leave home and take a job in the city. Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India full of hope for her new life, proud to be able to earn, daring to hope that she will make enough money to make her mother proud too. Then she learns the unthinkable truth: for 10,000 rupees she has been sold into prostitution.
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Hardback Editions
September 2006 : Hardback
| Title: Sold Author(s): Patricia Mccormick ISBN: 0-7868-5171-6 / 978-0-7868-5171-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Hyperion Book CH Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
June 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Sold (New Voices) (New Voices) Author(s): Patricia McCormick ISBN: 1-4063-1395-5 / 978-1-4063-1395-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Walker Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Sold Author(s): Patricia McCormick ISBN: 0-7868-5172-4 / 978-0-7868-5172-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Hyperion Book CH Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2006 : Paperback
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Other Editions
April 2008 : Unknown
| Title: Sold -Lib Author(s): Patricia McCormick ISBN: 1-4178-1810-7 / 978-1-4178-1810-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Topeka Bindery Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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