McCormick, Patricia, 1956-
Sold / Patricia McCormick. - 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. - New York : Hyperion Paperbacks, 2008, c2006. - 263 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published in hardcover: New York : Hyperion, 2006.
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
California Young Reader Medal for Young Adults, 2009.
9780786851720 (pbk.) 0786851724 (pbk.)
Teenage girls--India--Fiction.
Human trafficking--Fiction.
Child prostitution--India--Fiction.
Prostitution--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Families--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Nepal--Fiction.
India--Fiction.
FIC MCC
Sold / Patricia McCormick. - 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. - New York : Hyperion Paperbacks, 2008, c2006. - 263 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published in hardcover: New York : Hyperion, 2006.
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
California Young Reader Medal for Young Adults, 2009.
9780786851720 (pbk.) 0786851724 (pbk.)
Teenage girls--India--Fiction.
Human trafficking--Fiction.
Child prostitution--India--Fiction.
Prostitution--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Families--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Nepal--Fiction.
India--Fiction.
FIC MCC