“Ditto to all of the positive remarks about the book and Greg M. being inspirational and amazing. I am now halfway through a Young Adult novel titled Sold by Patricia McCormick. If your heart went out to all those young girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, then it will most certainly break when you meet Lakshmi, a 13-year old girl living in poverty in Nepal and who is unknowingly sold into prostitution by her self-indulgent stepfather. Just about every chapter reads like a poem. From page 60: "What I Carry"
Inside the bundle Ama packed for me are:
my bowl,
my hairbrush,
the notebook my teacher gave me for being the number one
girl in school,
and my bedroll.
Inside my head I carry:
my baby goat,
my baby brother,
my ama's face,
my family's future.
My bundle is light.
My burden is heavy.”
posted Sunday, May 18 2008
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