Keeping corner /
Sheth, Kashmira.
Keeping corner / Kashmira Sheth. - 1st Disney/Hyperion pbk. ed. - New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2009, c2007. - 272 p. ; 21 cm.
Wilson's Senior High School, January 2009 Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010 School Library Journal starred, December 2007 Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2009 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
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.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
0786838604
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 --Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Marriage--Fiction.
Women's rights--Fiction.
India--History--Fiction.
PZ7.S5543 / Kee 2009
[Fic]
Keeping corner / Kashmira Sheth. - 1st Disney/Hyperion pbk. ed. - New York : Disney/Hyperion Books, 2009, c2007. - 272 p. ; 21 cm.
Wilson's Senior High School, January 2009 Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010 School Library Journal starred, December 2007 Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2009 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
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.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
0786838604
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 --Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Marriage--Fiction.
Women's rights--Fiction.
India--History--Fiction.
PZ7.S5543 / Kee 2009
[Fic]