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Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this uncaring, dangerous world. Fortunately, the girls find shelter--and friendship--on an abandoned bridge. With two homeless boys, Muthi and Arul, the group forms a family of sorts. And while making a living scavenging the city's trash heaps is the pits, the...
2) Naming Maya
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When Maya accompanies her mother to India to sell her grandfather's house, she uncovers family history relating to her parents divorce and learns more about herself and her relationship with her mother. Although Maya has done her best to avoid it, she is spending part of her summer in Chennai, India, with her mother, who is trying to sell Maya's grandfather's old house. Maya decides to keep busy by taking photographs, viewing the trip from the outside...
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