Anila's journey
By: Mary Finn
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780763639167
Subjects: Racially mixed people; Missing persons; Juvenile fiction; History; Self-reliance; Fiction
Description: In late eighteenth-century Calcutta, half-Indian half-Irish Anila Tandy finds herself alone with nothing but her artistic talent to rely on, searching for her father who is presumed dead.
Table of contents: title: How to begin a story; title: The scrap of newspaper; title: The iron tea house; title: My mother; title: The city; title: The ring; title: My father; title: Mr. Walker; title: Mrs. Pannossian's shop; title: Stories and trinkets; title: Secrets; title: The Gardens; title: Blood gifts; title: An extra bed; title: Hemavati; title: Anoush's Christmas; title: Fruits for Durga; title: Hera; title: By the creek; title: Carlen; title: The house with the fountain; title: Camping; title: The Palanquin; title: Pink ducks; title: The proposal; title: The door between Hope and Fear; title: The Neem tree; title: Alchemy; title: Otters; title: The boy; title: The conch; title: Good fortune; title: Names; title: The book of surprises; title: The painting; title: Stargazing; title: The angel; title: The storm; title: The return journey; title: Arjun; title: From the sacred places; title: News; title: News from the past; title: At Alipore; title: The doctor's tale; title: A passage to Jupiter; title: Glossary.