But there is always room to read more varied books. I am mostly and largely a fiction reader and lover. General Thoughts: I am trying to read as much non-fiction as I can manage in the month of November for Non-fiction November. Then she learns the unthinkable truth: for 10,000 rupees she has been sold into prostitution.
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. 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. 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. Plot Summary: T hirteen-year-old Lakshmi lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal.
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