Sheth, Kashmira.
Keeping corner / Kashmira Sheth. - 1st Disney-Hyperion pbk. ed. - New York : Disney-Hyperion Books, 2009. - 272, [20] p. ; 21 cm.
Reprint with new Discussion guide. Previously published: New York : Hyperion, 2007.
In India in the 1940's, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
9780786838608 (pbk.) 0786838604 (pbk.)
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 --Juvenile fiction.
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 --Fiction.
Families--India--Juvenile fiction.
Widows--Juvenile fiction.
Child marriage--Juvenile fiction.
Women's rights--Juvenile fiction.
Family--India--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Child marriage--Fiction.
Women's rights--Fiction.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Juvenile fiction.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Fiction.
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Keeping corner / Kashmira Sheth. - 1st Disney-Hyperion pbk. ed. - New York : Disney-Hyperion Books, 2009. - 272, [20] p. ; 21 cm.
Reprint with new Discussion guide. Previously published: New York : Hyperion, 2007.
In India in the 1940's, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
9780786838608 (pbk.) 0786838604 (pbk.)
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 --Juvenile fiction.
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 --Fiction.
Families--India--Juvenile fiction.
Widows--Juvenile fiction.
Child marriage--Juvenile fiction.
Women's rights--Juvenile fiction.
Family--India--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Child marriage--Fiction.
Women's rights--Fiction.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Juvenile fiction.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Fiction.
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