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[Paperback - 2008]
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Category: Children
Publisher: Walker Books Uk | ISBN: 9781406313956 | Pages: 288
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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.

Patricia McCormick is a journalist and writer. She graduated from Rosemont College in 1978, followed by an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1986 and an M.F.A. from New School University in 1999. Her first novel for teens wasCut, about a young woman who self-injures herself. This was followed byMy Brother's Keeperin 2005, about a boy struggling with his brother's addiction andSoldin 2006. Her awards include the American Library Association Best Book of the Year, New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenage, and the Children's Literature Council's Choice.She has written forThe New York Times,Parentsmagazine,The New York Times Book Review,Ladies Home Journal,Town & Country,More,Reader's Digest,Mademoiselle, and other publications and has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an instructor of creative writing at the New School University. She lives in New York with two children, a husband, and two cats.

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