Homeless Bird

English

ISBN: 0064408191

EAN: 9780064408196

Category: Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Asia/Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Emotions & Feelings/Juvenile Fiction / Family / Marriage & Divorce/Juvenile Fiction / General/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 09/30/2001

Age Range: 8-12

Synopsis: National Book Award Winner. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly is getting married. When she discovers that the husband her parents have chosen for her is a sickly boy with wicked parents, Koly wishes that she could flee. But on her wedding day, her fate is sealed. Then Kolys life takes an unexpected turn. Finding herself in a city of widows begging for food, this rare you woman sets out to forge her own future.

Awards: American Library Association Notable Books for Children – null  Beehive Young Adults Book Award – null  Dorothy Canfield Fisher Childrens Book Award – null  Evergreen Young Adult Book Award – null  Garden State Teen Book Award – null  Great Lakes Great Books Award – null  Iowa Teen Award – null  Judy Lopez Memorial Award (Womens National Book Association, Los Angeles Chapter) – null  Maine Student Book Award – null  Massachusetts Childrens Book Award – null  Maud Hart Lovelace Award – null  National Book Awards – null  Nutmeg Childrens Book Award – null  Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award – null  Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award – null  SCASL Book Award (South Carolina) – null  School Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null  Sequoyah Book Award – null  Sunshine State Young Readers Book Award – null  Virginia Readers Choice Awards – null  Volunteer State Book Award – null  William Allen White Childrens Book Award – null  Young Readers Choice Award – null 

Homeless Bird

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.5 inches

Width: 5.13 inches

Length: 7.62 inches

Weight: 4.66 oz

Pages: 192