Homeless bird
by Gloria Whelan
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From the Publisher: Gloria Whelan's National Book Award-winning novel chronicles the breathtaking 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. In prose both graceful and unflinching, this powerful novel 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 real teenage widows in India today.
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Fiction, Arranged marriage, Juvenile fiction, Courage, Young women, Children's fiction, India, fiction, Marriage, fiction, Courage, fictionPlaces
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National Book Award, 2000; NYPL Books for the Teen Age, 2001; Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award; Virginia Young Readers Award.
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