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-- 15 lanes2016., Adolescent, Tundra Books Call No: REALISTIC F LAI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Having lived all fourteen of her years in Mumbai's red light district, Noor seems fated to stay there, like her mother, and live a horrible life in the city's sex trade. Across the city is fifteen-year-old Grace, who has enjoyed a life of privilege due to her father's position as CEO of an international company--that status doesn't protect her from a vicious online attack. The two girls' very different paths cross, and though they are so different, they find a common path to making both their lives better.
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2023., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: REALISTIC F GUP Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, fourteen-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her.
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2017., Pre-adolescent, First Second Call No: 741.5 CHA Edition: 1st ed. 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions--the topic of India is permanently closed. For Pri, her mother's homeland can only exist in her imagination. That is, until she find a mysterious pashmina tucked away in a forgotten suitcase. When she wraps herself in it, she is transported to a place more vivid and colorful than any guidebook or Bollywood film. But is this the real India? And what is that shadow lurking in the background? To learn the truth Pri must travel farther than she's ever dared and find the family she never knew"--Back cover.
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2008, c2006., Adolescent, Hyperion Paperbacks Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st Hyperion Paperb Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2006., Hyperion Call No: Young adult FIC MCCORMICK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
