Sold

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 13, 2007

SoldLakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Lakshmi’s stepfather sells her into prostitution in India. She is told that she has to stay in the prostitution until she pays off her family debt. Lakshmi forms friendships with other girls that enable her to survive in the terrifying new world.

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  1. Avatar of Marilyn Carpenter Marilyn Carpenter
    Posted December 21, 2009 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    This powerful novel focuses on trafficking in sexual slavery. Some passages are explicit in portraying the pain and abuse that Lakshmi suffers as she is forced into prostitution. College students in my class, A Global View through Children’s Literature, wrote that Sold changed their thinking and made them want to take action against such trafficking.
    Marilyn Carpenter

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  2. Janine Schall
    Posted January 12, 2010 at 8:54 pm | Permalink

    This was a hard book to read, but in terms of writing quality, storyline and emotional impact it is one of the best young adult novels that I’ve read.

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  1. By WOW Currents » Invitations and Negotiations: Informal Spaces on May 17, 2010 at 12:19 am

    [...] This week’s blog focuses on the girls’ readings and discussions of Patricia McCormick’s Sold (2006). Set in a rural village of Nepal, Sold is the story of young Lakshmi, whose stepfather sells [...]

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