Homeless bird, Gloria Whelan
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Homeless bird, Gloria Whelan
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Homeless bird
Oclc number
41482279
Responsibility statement
Gloria Whelan
Summary
The story of a remarkable young woman who dares to defy fate. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly faces her arranged marriage with hope and courage. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled; her life has been sold for a dowry. Relays the story of a rare young woman, who even when cast out into a brutal current of time-worn tradition, sets out to forge her own remarkable future. Inspired by a newspaper article about the real thirteen-year-old widows in India today
Target audience
pre adolescent
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