~ Trade Paperback, *Mature Themes
~ Winner of the Quill Award for Young Adult/Teen - 2007, and the California Young Readers Medal for Young Adult - 2009
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi lives happily with her family in the Nepal mountains. They are poor, but they have a small home and enjoy simple pleasures of life, but when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all of their crops, she must leave home and take a job to support her family. Life soon becomes a nightmare from which Lakshmi cannot escape when she learns she has been sold into prostitution . . .
Written in spare and evocative vignettes, Sold is a powerful novel rendering a world that is as unimaginable as it is real, and a girl who not only survives but triumphs.
“Heartbreaking. McCormick’s research for this novel involved interviewing women in Nepal and India, and her depth of detail makes the characters believable and their misery palpable. This important book was written in their honor.” -- School Library Journal