Annotation
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Awards
2007 Quill Awards
2008-2009 California Young Reader Medal
2006 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
2006 Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books
Characters
| Name | Lakshmi |
| Gender | Female |
| Genre | Young adult fiction |
| Topics | Homeless Poverty Stepfathers Prostitution Slavery Human trafficking |
| Setting | Nepal, India |