Homeless bird
By: Gloria Whelan
Edition: 1st Harper Trophy ed.
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780064408196
Subjects: Fiction; Arranged marriage; Juvenile fiction; Courage; Young women
Description: From the Publisher: Gloria Whelan's National Book Award-winning novel chronicles the breathtaking story of a remarkable young woman who dares to defy fate.  Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly faces her arranged marriage with hope and courage.  But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled; her life has been sold for a dowry.  In prose both graceful and unflinching, this powerful novel relays the story of a rare young woman, who even when cast out into a brutal current of time-worn tradition, sets out to forge her own remarkable future.  Inspired by a newspaper article about real teenage widows in India today.
Notes: National Book Award, 2000; NYPL Books for the Teen Age, 2001; Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award; Virginia Young Readers Award.