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Author Sheth, Kashmira.

Title Keeping corner / Kashmira Sheth.

Imprint New York : Hyperion, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Historical Fiction  F SHETH    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 281 p. ; 22 cm.
Indexed In: School Library Journal starred, December 2007
Booklist starred, October 2007
Library Media Connection starred, January 2008
Pub Weekly, November 2007
Kirkus Starred, October 2007
Horn Book, April 2008
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2008
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2007
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.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG RL 4.8 8.0 118146 852
Subject Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Fiction.
Family life -- India -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Fiction.
Women's rights -- Fiction.
India -- History.
ISBN 0786838590

 
    
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