Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
281 p. ; 22 cm. |
Indexed In: |
School Library Journal starred, December 2007 |
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Booklist starred, October 2007 |
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Library Media Connection starred, January 2008 |
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Pub Weekly, November 2007 |
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Kirkus Starred, October 2007 |
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Horn Book, April 2008 |
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Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2008 |
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Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2007 |
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Multicultural Review, December 2007 |
Summary |
In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms. |
Audience |
760 Lexile. |
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Young Adult Follett Library Resources |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG RL 4.8 8.0 118146 852 |
Subject |
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Fiction.
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Family life -- India -- Fiction.
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Widows -- Fiction.
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Marriage -- Fiction.
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Women's rights -- Fiction.
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India -- History.
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ISBN |
0786838590 |
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