Sold
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781452610863 (145261086X)
Publish date: November 26th 2012
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
Summary: Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lam...
Beschreibung auf dem Buckrücken: Die Herrin des Hauses mustert mich. "Bist du bereit, an die Arbeit zu gehen?", fragt sie mich in meiner Sprache. Ich nickte und sage Ja, und dann nicke ich noch einmal, obwohl ich keine Ahnung habe, wie diese Stadtleute ihre Arbeiten in solch feinen Kleidern und so...
This review can also be found on the NerdHerd Reads I usually do not prefer audiobooks. I just don't really have the patience or the attention span to listen to them. But I have had barely any time to read lately. I have a 40+ minute drive to and from school every day, and decided to try it out. W...
I received this book for free from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I heard about this book in my YA class last semester, when another student read it for a book talk. When I saw that there were audio review copie...
Written in free verse this story leaves the innocence behind and awakes in Lakshmi a darken world. Raised in Nepal, her life is centered on the rice plants, tending to her goat and family chores. When money gets tight, thirteen year old Lakshmi gets sold and what she visions for her future is not w...
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