Shanta.
By: Illustrated by Marvin Friedman.
Contributors: Friedman, Marvin, illus.
Publisher: Follett Pub. Co.
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: India -- Fiction
Description: A girl from a small village in India tells of the tragic and happy year she was "twelve rainy seasons old," when the joys of a trip to a harvest festival and her betrothal are offset by the cruelty of her parents' death and the strenuous demands of tending the annual rice crop.