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Patricia McCormick

Hardcover | Pages: 268 pages

Rating: 4.21 | 49179 Users | 5900 Reviews

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Original Title:	Sold
ISBN:	0786851716 (ISBN13: 9780786851713)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Nepal
Literary Awards:	South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2009), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2008), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Jugendbuch (2009), California Young Readers Medal for Young Adult (2009), Lincoln Award Nominee (2009) James Cook Book Award Nominee (2007), National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2006), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2009)

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Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.

He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid working for a wealthy woman in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India and arrives at “Happiness House” full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.

An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family’s debt – then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave.

Lakshmi’s life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still, she lives by her mother’s words – “Simply to endure is to triumph” – and gradually, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision – will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life?

Written in spare and evocative vignettes, this powerful novel renders a world that is as unimaginable as it is real, and a girl who not only survives but triumphs.

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Title	:	Sold
Author	:	Patricia McCormick
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 268 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2006 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (first published September 1st 2006)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Poetry. Historical. Historical Fiction. Teen. Sociology. Abuse

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Ratings: 4.21 From 49179 Users | 5900 Reviews

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Lakshmi is a thirteen year old girl who lives with her family in Nepal. She wants to help her family out financially by working as a maid in the city but she is sold into a life of prostitution by her stepfather. This is a fictional story but is based on interviews the author conducted with aid workers and survivors themselves.This is a tough book to read but I highly recommend giving it a chance if you think you can handle the subject matter. It is written in a simple, almost poetic way and yet

What a powerful, haunting story! Written in free verse from the perspective of a 13 year old Nepalese girl, who was sold from her mountain home to earn a living as a maid in the big city. Lakshmi was saddened to leave her mother and her baby brother, but she was eager to earn a living so she could send money back to her family for necessities like clothing, food, and a new tin roof, for which they were in desperate need. But when Lakshmi leaves, she is not taken to the big city to work as a

TRIGGER WARNING: It is best for people particularly sensitive toward the subject of sexual abuse/child molestation to avoid reading any further. Caution is advised. And so, Love, you launch in vain your insane onslaught: since it will be said - to see me fall yet not surrender - that you managed to kill but failed to conquer.Juana Inez de la CruzWhen beautiful things are broken, screams begin. When beautiful things are taken, horror begins. When beautiful minds are bended, there is no tomorrow

This book ended with Lakshmi, the main character, leaving the happiness home. The happiness home is the "trap house" for girls that are forced into the sex slave industry. They are usually brought from poor families in order to pay off their families' debt. In reality, however, Mumtaz, the mistress, is cheating them of their money. So they are forced to sleep with multiple men, with no reward and lost dignities. This book tends to lean towards the darker side of the general public, and tends to

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another book i'm not sure gains a lot by being written in verse, unless it is just to slow the pacing down to better appreciate the horror. the beginning pre-sale parts were very beautifully descriptive, and then after that become very unbeautifully descriptive. it's a rough subject matter that doesn't get disney-fied... until the end.