Sold
by Patricia McCormick
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Sold, by Patricia McCormick, tells the story of a thirteen year old girl from Nepal who is sold into prostitution by her step father. Lakshmi, who is eager to help her mother and baby brother, believes that she is being sent to the city to work for a rich family. She is scared, but proud that she will be able to make enough money to buy a tin roof for her family’s home. All of her dreams are shattered when she realizes that her step-father has sold her into prostitution in India. McCormick...more
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Read in March, 2008
AM I PRETTY?
In the days after the hugging man leaves, I consider myself in the mirror. My plain self, not the self wearing lipstick and eyeliner and a flimsy dress.
Sometimes I see a girl who is growing into womanhood. Other days I see a girl growing old before her time.
It doesn't matter, of course. Because no one will ever want me now.
Lakshmi is thirteen-years-old. She lives a simple, albeit impoverished, existence with with her Ama, infant sibling and gambling-addicted st...more
In the days after the hugging man leaves, I consider myself in the mirror. My plain self, not the self wearing lipstick and eyeliner and a flimsy dress.
Sometimes I see a girl who is growing into womanhood. Other days I see a girl growing old before her time.
It doesn't matter, of course. Because no one will ever want me now.
Lakshmi is thirteen-years-old. She lives a simple, albeit impoverished, existence with with her Ama, infant sibling and gambling-addicted st...more
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Reviewed by Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com
SOLD tells the story of Lakshmi, who lives in a tiny mountain village in Nepal. She lives in a hut with her stepfather, mother, and baby brother. Poverty is all Lakshmi knows. She speaks of swallowing her spit and pretending it is soup, tightening her waistcloth to fool her belly into thinking it's full, and thickening her stew with dirt. Lakshmi dreams of going to the city like some girls and working for a rich famil...more
SOLD tells the story of Lakshmi, who lives in a tiny mountain village in Nepal. She lives in a hut with her stepfather, mother, and baby brother. Poverty is all Lakshmi knows. She speaks of swallowing her spit and pretending it is soup, tightening her waistcloth to fool her belly into thinking it's full, and thickening her stew with dirt. Lakshmi dreams of going to the city like some girls and working for a rich famil...more
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Read in June, 2008
What a powerful, haunting story! Written in free verse from the perspective of a 13 year old Nepalese girl, who was sold from her mountain home to earn a living as a maid in the big city. Lakshmi was saddened to leave her mother and her baby brother, but she was eager to earn a living so she could send money back to her family for necessities like clothing, food, and a new tin roof, for which they were in desperate need. But when Lakshmi leaves, she is not taken to the big city to work as a m...more
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Read in January, 2008
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Read in February, 2007
I read Sold in a matter of hours. It is a beautifully written book by a brave and important writer. Sold tells the story of a 13 year old Nepali girl who is sold into the often ignored, globally pervasive child trafficking industry.
McCormick's heartwrenching book offers a necessary global perspective to a frequently underestimated and misunderstood audience--American teens and young adults--in beautifully written, age-appropriate language. Sold offers a realistic (meticulously researched)...more
McCormick's heartwrenching book offers a necessary global perspective to a frequently underestimated and misunderstood audience--American teens and young adults--in beautifully written, age-appropriate language. Sold offers a realistic (meticulously researched)...more
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
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A young girl named Lakshmi lives in a poor village in Nepal with her mother, baby brother, and stepfather. After a monsoon destroys the rice harvest when she is 13, her stepfather sells Lakshmi into prostitution (although Lakshmi is told that she is going to the city to be a maid for a wealthy family). She is taken to a brothel in India called Happiness House.
Lakshmi fights her captors, but is eventually convinced that going along is the best thing for her family. Until, that is, one of t...more
Lakshmi fights her captors, but is eventually convinced that going along is the best thing for her family. Until, that is, one of t...more
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Read in June, 2008
recommends it for:
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi is like most girls-she helps her mother, plays with her baby brother, and dreams of one day marrying and having babies of her own. When the monsoons destroy the crops on her family's Nepal farm, her stepfather arranges for her to leave their village to become a maid for a rich lady in the city. Instead Lakshmi is sold into a Calcutta brothel, facing unspeakable cruelty and horror, her memories of home all she has to help her endure. The story is told in brief, poetic sc...more
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Read in May, 2008
This was an interesting book. I can't say I loved it, I can't say I hated it. Once again, I am surprised that this type of book is YA. I am not opposed to books like this being written, but when the target audience is high schoolers, it just really bothers me.
This is a fictional book based on factual events. The author traveled to India and discovered the red district. Young girls are sold unknowingly and sometimes knowingly to the red district where they are prostituted out. The autho...more
This is a fictional book based on factual events. The author traveled to India and discovered the red district. Young girls are sold unknowingly and sometimes knowingly to the red district where they are prostituted out. The autho...more
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Reading "Sold" was quick and enjoyable read. The story is told in the perspective of Lakshmi, a Nepalese girl who is sold as a prostitute by her father. She left her family and village oblivious to the world of prostitution. As she enters her new "home", she meets the woman whose in charge of her, along with other girls with the same struggles. These girls have different ways of coping with their situation. Some just deal with it, thinking that they will one day pay off the ...more
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Read in January, 2008
This is the mentality that Lakshmi must cultivate in order to survive in her new life. Lakshmi was raised in a poor family with her mother, Ama, and selfish stepfather. Though they struggle and are constantly concerned about money, Lakshmi is content and attempts to enjoy her childhood. However, when her stepfather loses all of their money while gambling, his solution is to sell Lakshmi into the sex trade. Lakshmi has no idea where she is going, but believes she is to work for a wealthy family t...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Madisun Hetzronirecommends it for: teenage girls and older girls as well!
Wow! What a great book! I started it and pretty much didn't get up until I finished! (It helped that it wasn't too long... :-)) This book transports you to modern-day India where thirteen-year-old Lakshmi's HORRIBLE step-father sells her to finance his gambling habit in a dirt-poor village. She thinks she's going to work as a maid for a rich lady in the city, but boy is she surprised when she realizes she has been sold to be a child prostitute, never even allowed outside. My favorite part was wh...more
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Read in April, 2007
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Not for the fainthearted, Patricia McCormic's "Sold" takes us into the heart of India's Sex Trade through the eyes of 13 year old Lakshmi. The book is told in first person, journal entry type, free verse poems. Lakshmi's story begins in her small country village of Nepal and ends up in a dirty Indian brothel when her father sells her to pay for his extravagant gambling habits. The story is fairly graphic in a couple ...more
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Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl whos dream is to the village to make her mother happy to return with good things. Her step-father, a coward drunk, isnt so nice to Lakshmi. There family is poor, living in a hut on the outskirts of Nepal. One day, her mother tells her that she has to go in town to work as a maid to bring some money for the family. Her step-father takes her into town...selling her to a lady who is the owner of a prostituion house. Lakshmi has no idea what is going on. She ...more
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This is a book about the hardships that a Nepalian teenage girl had to go through after being sold to a brothel. It is about how she is confused with whether or not she should believe anymore because everytime she believed in someone, that person betrays her. It is not till the end where this one person who kept his promise and brought her hope. The main part of this book is the time that she learned how to grow and become American while serving in a brothel. She had to do things that she never ...more
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Read in January, 2007
This is the story of young woman (Lakshmi) in Nepal sold by her gambling debt-ridden father into prostitution. As a prostitute, her body will be sold and sold again. The strength of this novel — which appeared on both the Best Books for Young Adults list and the Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers list — is how McCormick shows the psychological terror going on inside of Lakshmi while never fully describing the horror of her debased and degraded life. The story follows Lakshmi from the simple a...more
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Read in December, 2007
Lakshmi's life in Nepal is difficult, but she loves being with her mother and baby brother... until her stepfather sends her to the city to be a maid. Except that he lied. She was never going to be a maid. He sold her into prostitution.
This modern tale imagines what the sex-trade is like for the thousands of girls who are trafficked around the world everyday. The story is graphic at points, but in such a way as to make you realize the horror being powerless and without a voice. Lakshmi'...more
This modern tale imagines what the sex-trade is like for the thousands of girls who are trafficked around the world everyday. The story is graphic at points, but in such a way as to make you realize the horror being powerless and without a voice. Lakshmi'...more
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Read in June, 2008
So many young girls are sold into India's brothels every year. It is a thriving business. And the girls are young and naive and have no idea what is goign to happen to them and how their lives will be destroyed. Lakshmi is sold by her stepfather to work as a maid with a rich woman in the city. That woman is a broker who sells her to a madam. She goes planning to work hard and get money for a new roof for her family. Only that is not what happens. She is forced into being a low paid prosti...more
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Read in January, 2007
"Sold" isn't the most beautiful book I've read in terms of language and writing style, but when it comes down to it, it doesn't matter if the writing style is horrible as long as the plot is moving and caputuring.
"Sold" is a book about a girl named Lakshmia who is forced into poverty after a terrible storm and her step-father loses money in gambling. She is sold as a child prostitute in a city far away. She fights the abuse of her owner and befriends other prostitutes in ...more
"Sold" is a book about a girl named Lakshmia who is forced into poverty after a terrible storm and her step-father loses money in gambling. She is sold as a child prostitute in a city far away. She fights the abuse of her owner and befriends other prostitutes in ...more
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Read in December, 2006
This is a compelling and moving story of a young girl who is sold into prostitution. Lakshmi is a thirteen year old girl who lives with her family in Nepal. Although dire poverty makes life is hard for Lakshi and her family, she still is loved and cared for by her mother, Ama. But her stepfather is another story—he gambles with their hard earned money and is always in debt. After a catastrophic harvest failure, Lakshmi’s stepfather tells her he is going to send her to the city to be a ma...more
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