Sold

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Label

Sold

Statement of responsibility

Patricia McCormick

Creator

• trueMcCormick, Patricia, 1956-
• McCormick, Patricia, 1956-

Subject

• Slavery -- Fiction
• trueSexually abused girls
• trueSexual slavery -- India
• trueSex crimes
• trueAmericans in India
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBooks to movies
• trueChild abuse
• Child prostitution -- Fiction
• Child prostitution -- India -- Juvenile fiction
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• trueHomelessness
• trueHope
• Human trafficking -- Fiction
• trueIndia
• India -- Fiction
• India -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile materials
• trueNepal
• Nepal -- Fiction
• Novels in verse
• truePoverty
• trueProstitution
• Prostitution -- Fiction
• trueRescues
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueThirteen-year-old girls
• trueTeenage prostitutes
• Teenage girls -- India -- Juvenile fiction
• trueStepfathers

Genre

• trueRealistic fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile materials
• trueBooks for reluctant readers
• trueBooks to movies
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape

Theme

• trueSurviving sexual violence

Storyline

• trueIssue-oriented

Tone

• trueEmotionally intense
• trueDisturbing
• trueThought-provoking
• trueHaunting

Writing style

• trueThoughtful
• trueSpare
• trueCompelling

Character

• trueCulturally diverse
• trueSympathetic
• trueAuthentic

Award

• Amelia Bloomer List, 2007
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2006
• California Young Reader Medal, Young Adult, 2009.
• Delaware Diamonds (book award), High School, 2009.
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2007
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2010
• YALSA Outstanding Book for the College Bound, 2009.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2007

Awards note

Eliot Rosewater Nominee, 2009-2010

Cataloging source

MCF

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

820

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.5.M43

LC item number

Sol 2008

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

820

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Target audience

adolescent