Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
2003 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
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Forced to leave her family at thirteen and marry someone she has never met...
Koly's parents have arranged a marriage for their only daughter and now, like many girls her age in India, she will leave home forever. She yearns to flee, but tradition dictates that it's too late to turn back. On. her wedding day, Koly's fate is sealed.
Caught up in a current of tradition that threatens to sweep her toward a terrifying fate, Koly finds herself cast out, lost in a strange and cruel world. But sometimes, courage and hope can he more powerful than tradition, and fate can be taken into one's own hands.
Koly's parents have arranged a marriage for their only daughter and now, like many girls her age in India, she will leave home forever. She yearns to flee, but tradition dictates that it's too late to turn back. On. her wedding day, Koly's fate is sealed.
Caught up in a current of tradition that threatens to sweep her toward a terrifying fate, Koly finds herself cast out, lost in a strange and cruel world. But sometimes, courage and hope can he more powerful than tradition, and fate can be taken into one's own hands.
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National Book Award
2000 · Young People's Literature · Winner
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