Posts Tagged ‘India’
Boys Without Names
Balzer + Bray, 2010
Fiction
ISBN: 0061857602
320 pages
Synopsis
For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve, his baba has warned. With the darkness of night as cover, they flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and a brighter future. Gopal is eager to help support his struggling family until school starts, so when a stranger approaches him with the promise of a factory job, he jumps at the offer. …
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Tiger Moon
Amulet Books, 2008
Fantasy
ISBN:081099481X
464 pages
Awards
Synopsis
Safia, a beautiful woman from the deserts of India, is traded as property by her father to a wealthy but evil merchant. Seeking to free herself from this plight, she befriends one of the palace servants, a eunuch named Lagan. During the nights where the two engage in conversation, Safia weaves a story of a young thief named Farhad. This young man, the unlikeliest of heroes, is called to rescue a princess from the Demon King, and in order to do so, he must go on a quest to find the Bloodstone. Farhad finds strange help along the way, especially when he rescues a white tiger and rides him across the desert to the palace. Eventually, the two stories begin to intertwine, and Lagan realizes that he must make a choice that may jeopardize his own safety. …
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