Here is a brief summary from Booklist...Lakshmi, 13, knows nothing about the world beyond her village shack in the Himalayas of Nepal, and when her family loses the little it has in a monsoon, she grabs a chance to work as a maid in the city so she can send money back home. What she doesn't know is that her stepfather has sold her into prostitution. She ends up in a brothel far across the border in the slums of Calcutta, locked up, beaten, starved, and drugged. In beautiful clear prose and free verse that remains true to the child's viewpoint, first-person, present-tense vignettes fill in Lakshmi's story. The brutality and cruelty are ever present ("I have been beaten here, / locked away, / violated a hundred times / and a hundred times more"), but not sensationalized.
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The book I have read was Sold which was a interesting book..I also read First Part Last by Angela Johnson. That book was amazing and I couldn't put it down. It was cute in a way and teaches you a lesson to not have kids while you are really young. Next, I read the second book which is called Heaven and that book is also very good. It was a little sad on how the girl didn't know that her Uncle Jack was really her dad. Now im just waiting for the third book to come out. Angela Johnson is a great writer.=]
-Mily
Thanks for the comments...The third book in that series, Sweet, hereafter will be out in July!
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