Title The best day of my life / Deborah Ellis

Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2012 Crow Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2012

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Description 168 pages ; 20 cm regular print Series Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9 Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9 Summary An absorbing, emotionally engrossing story about a young Indian girl who is cast out by her family when she develops leprosy Even though Valli spends her days picking coal and fighting with her cousins, life in the coal town of Jharia, India, is the only life she knows. The only sight that fills her with terror is the monsters who live on the other side of the train tracks - the lepers. When Valli discovers that that her 'aunt' is a stranger who was paid money to take Valli off her own family's hands, she leaves Jharia and begins a series of adventures that takes her to Kolkata, the city of the gods. Valli finds that she really doesn't need much to live and is very resourceful. But a chance encounter with a doctor reveals that she has leprosy. Unable to bear the thought that she is one of the monsters she has always feared, Valli rejects help and begins an uncertain life on the street Notes First published: 2011 Audience For secondary school age Subject Vaughan, Brian K. Runaways -- Fiction. Courage -- Fiction. Homeless persons -- Fiction. Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction. Homeless persons -- Young adult fiction Homeless persons -- India -- Fiction. Homeless persons -- India -- Juvenile fiction. Homeless persons. Leprosy -- Fiction. Leprosy -- Juvenile fiction. Leprosy -- India -- Juvenile fiction. Leprosy -- India -- Fiction. Leprosy. Orphans -- Juvenile fiction. Orphans -- Young adult fiction Orphans -- India -- Fiction. Orphans -- India -- Juvenile fiction. Orphans. Self-reliance in children -- Fiction. Young adult fiction. Homeless persons -- Fiction. Leprosy -- Fiction. Orphans -- Fiction. SUBJECT India -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104233 India http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125948 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 India http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125948 -- Young adult fiction India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115432 India. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125948 India -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104233 Genre/Form Fiction. Author Bozinēs, Nikos, 1960- ISBN 1742379141 9781742379142 (paperback)

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