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020 $a9780064408196 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)47976545
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050 4$aPZ7.W5718$bHo 2001
082 04$a813.54$221
100 1 $aWhelan, Gloria.
245 10$aHomeless bird /$cGloria Whelan.
250 $a1st Harper Trophy ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperTrophy,$c2001.
300 $a186 p. ;$c19 cm.
520 $aFrom 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.
586 $aNational Book Award, 2000; NYPL Books for the Teen Age, 2001; Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award; Virginia Young Readers Award.
650 0$aYoung women$zIndia$vJuvenile fiction.
650 0$aArranged marriage$zIndia$vJuvenile fiction.
650 1$aCourage$vFiction.
651 0$aIndia$vFiction.