01548cam a2200385 4500 337184582 TxAuBib 20100226120000.0 070607s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780786851713 15.99 0786851716 15.99 9780786851713 9 780786 851713 WiMaMI TxAuBib McCormick, Patricia, 09/04. Sold / Patricia McCormick. National Book Award finalist. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, 2006. 263 p. ; 22 cm. Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph, " until the day comes that she can reclaim her life. 20070607. Teenage girls India Fiction. Teenage girls Indian Juvenile fiction. Family problems Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Child prostitution India Fiction. Child prostitution India Juvenile fiction. Juvenile prostitution India Fiction. Juvenile prostitution India Juvenile fiction. Family Juvenile fiction. India Fiction. India Juvenile fiction.