Premlata And The Festival Of Lights

Because her mother had been forced to sell the family’s Diwali lamps to buy rice, Premlata’s family is too poor to celebrate the Festival of Lights, until she comes up with an ingenious scheme to bring light and hope to her family.

Related: Asia, Fiction, India, Intermediate (ages 9-14)

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