Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelanis about a girl named Koly who lives in a poor village in India; and she is 13 years old and she has to get married so that the food in her house could go around. So they marry her off to a "16 year old", but in reality he is 13 years old and he is very sick. Her mother-in-law is very cruel to her because she does not want her to see her husband, they want to take Hari (her husband) to "the Holy Ganges" to heal him.Turns out that Hari dies and Koly has to live with her mother-in-law and father-in-law because she can'tgo back to live with her parents because"it would bring shame to the family",or as koly says. One quote from the book that captured me was on page75,"It was about a flock of birds flying day and night through the skies.Amomg them was one homeless bird, always flying on to somewhere else",page 75.I can connest to this quote because I can imagine myself as the "homeless bird"because I am always going "somewhere else" without any home to go to. Koly (our main character)thinks thinks she is a"homeless bird"because she is very lonely in the book,her family is in another village , her mother-in-law hates her, and to top it all offher husband is dead.I would hate to live that way because because my life would be so miserable,I would give this book a 10 because it was never boring at all.One theme of the book is family because you don't have to be blood-realatedto be family becausein the book her sister-in-law was like her very own sisterbecause she did everything one did. Homeless Bird is kind of like the book of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee because Koly is a "homeless bird" and so is Boo Radely because no one ever listened to Boo like Koly.I guess at the end Koly and Boo both found the home they were looking for.