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Homeless bird

Whelan, Gloria (author.).

Summary: "Like many girls her age in the India of her time period, thirteen-year-old-Koly is getting married. Full of hope and courage, she leaves home forever. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled about exactly what she is marrying into. Her future, it would seem, is lost. Yet this rare young woman, bewildered and brave, sets out to forge her own exceptional future. " -- goodreads.com

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  • ISBN: 9780064408196 (softcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    186 pages ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Trophy, 2001.

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Awards Note:
National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
Subject: Arranged marriage -- Juvenile fiction
Girls -- Juvenile fiction
India -- Juvenile fiction

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at University College of the North Libraries.

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The Pas Campus Library PZ 7 .W5718 2001 (Text) 58500000809343 UCNJuv Volume hold Available -

Summary: "Like many girls her age in the India of her time period, thirteen-year-old-Koly is getting married. Full of hope and courage, she leaves home forever. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled about exactly what she is marrying into. Her future, it would seem, is lost. Yet this rare young woman, bewildered and brave, sets out to forge her own exceptional future. " -- goodreads.com
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