Worldwide, the US State Department estimates that nearly half a million children are trafficked into the sex trade annually. Lakshmi was sold by her stepfather to the intermediary for Nepalese Rupees - less than $ McCormick suggests ways teenagers (and adults) can . · Sold is the story of Lakshmi, a girl from a small village living with her Ama, baby brother and stepfather. Her stepfather sells her for money to pay gambling debts, and she is brought to the city, only to find out that there is no maid job waiting for her. She has been sold into prostitution. This story was hard to read/5. Sold is a contemporary YA novel by American writer Patricia McCormick, published in Written in short vignettes, Sold tells the story of thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, a poor but happy girl living with her family in a mountain hut in Nepal. When a Himalayan monsoon washes away her family's crops, Lakshmi must find a job to support her family. On the advice of a stranger, she goes to India to stay at a .
Sold by Patricia McCormick is the breath-taking, thought-provoking and beautifully written story about a child who has to deal with the horrors of a life in which she has no rights and bear the burdens the majority of people would be destroyed with. It might be not a good thing to say but one of the most common thoughts, which will cross a. Sold is a novel by Patricia McCormick, published in It tells the story of a girl from Nepal named Lakshmi, who is sold into sexual slavery in www.doorway.ru novel is written in a series of short, vignette-style chapters, from the point of view of the main character. To research Sold, Patricia McCormick traveled to India and Nepal where she interviewed the women of Calcutta's red-light district and girls who have been rescued from the sex trade. She is the author of the acclaimed novels Cut and My Brother's Keeper.
Sold is a contemporary YA novel by American writer Patricia McCormick, published in Written in short vignettes, Sold tells the story of thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, a poor but happy girl living with her family in a mountain hut in Nepal. When a Himalayan monsoon washes away her family's crops, Lakshmi must find a job to support her family. On the advice of a stranger, she goes to India to stay at a 'Happiness House', but once there finds she has been tricked, and sold into prostitution. To research Sold, Patricia McCormick traveled to India and Nepal, where she interviewed the. Told in a series of haunting vignettes, SOLD is a harrowing account of a sexual slavery. Alternating lyrical imagery with precise detail, McCormick gives voice to the terror and bewilderment of a young girl robbed of her childhood but who finds the strength to triumph. SOLD was a National Book Award Finalist.
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