Despite grinding poverty, and various setbacks, Lakshmi is basically happy. The early part of the book is about Lakshmi's life in the village, with her hard-working mother, Ama, her sickly baby brother, and her worthless (but pampered) stepfather. In a series of poems, ranging from a few lines to several pages each, Lakshmi shows us what her world is like. Sold is verse novel told from the perspective of Lakshmi, a thirteen year old girl born in a small mountain village in Nepal. But I'm going to review it anyway, because I simply couldn't put it down. It was also nominated for the Cybils Award for Young Adult Fiction. Sold was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and was a Publisher's Weekly best book of the year. Sold, by Patricia McCormick, was released just two and a half months ago, and yet it seems almost redundant to review it now, because it has already garnered so many laurels.
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