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Patricia McCormick

Start date: January 1, 2020

Finish date: January 30, 2020

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Why we're reading this: National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

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Jan 26, 2020 Mariah Roze rated it it was amazing

Shelves: diversity-in-all-forms-book-club

I read this book for the Goodreads' Book Club: Diversity in All Forms!
This book was extremely good and heartbreaking! I learned so much and I encourage others to read this book.

"Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan m ...more

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May 30, 2016 Cecily Black rated it really liked it

I absolutely love books in verse!

This was such a heart breaking story, especially if you are like me and have read a lot of books on this topic and I just knew what was going to happen and she is so naiive in her youth and it really is heartbreaking that this is the truth for so many girls.

Great story but a sad one! Easy quick read!

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Jul 13, 2015 Nanci rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction

Great book! 4.5 stars

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Jan 12, 2014 Amie's Book Reviews rated it it was amazing

This is the story of an Indian girl from a remote village who is sold by her impoverished family and taken far from her home where she is forced into a life of prostitution and degradation.

This book is intended for a Young Adult audience and does a great job of not bogging the story down with statistics.

All teenagers need to read this book and to become aware that these things are actually happening right now.

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Aug 02, 2017 Zephyr rated it it was amazing

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5.0 stars

This is a book that promotes empathy and knowledge about issues as important and hard to talk about as sex slavery. It was definitely an emotional roller-coaster, but an emotional roller-coaster is what you need when discussing issues as this. This book gave me a deep sense of hopelessness, but it nonetheless showed me how dangerous it is to be a young teenaged girl and how important it is to share this awareness with the world, despite how difficult it is to talk about.

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