Gloria Whelan
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 4.03 | 11721 Users | 1451 Reviews
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| Title | : | Homeless Bird |
| Author | : | Gloria Whelan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | August 21st 2001 by HarperCollins (first published March 1st 2000) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. India. Childrens. Middle Grade. Realistic Fiction |
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Like many girls her age in the India of her time period, thirteen-year-old-Koly is getting married. Full of hope and courage, she leaves home forever. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled about exactly what she is marrying into. Her future, it would seem, is lost. Yet this rare young woman, bewildered and brave, sets out to forge her own exceptional future.Itemize Books In Favor Of Homeless Bird
| Original Title: | Homeless Bird |
| ISBN: | 0064408191 (ISBN13: 9780064408196) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | India |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2000), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2002), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award Nominee (2001), Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Nominee (2001) |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 11721 Users | 1451 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan's Homeless Bird is a pleasant enough story. Predictable and pleasant. It is a fast read and Koly is a likable protagonist.But shortly after beginning the book I stopped to research the author. As I suspected after my first few pages of reading, Whelan herself is neither Indian or of Indian ancestry and has never traveled to India. I believe that it IS possible for writers to write successfully outside of their own experiences, but I am EXTREMELY wary of authors who attempt to writeHomeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan, is a book about a young woman in India. Koly is a poor girl in India. When her family needs more money for food, they arrange for her to marry a young man in a different city. When she meets her husband, she learns that his family has been keeping many secrets. I enjoyed learning about life in India in this book. I thought the characters were really interesting. I especially liked how persistent Koly was. You should read this book if you're interested in
It wasn't that good but it was ok
This story is a Hindu story about a girl who is told she is getting married at the age of 13. Then later she finds out the person she is supposed to get married to only wanted to get married for the dowry (Hindu term for gift to get married to the person, in other words, she had to give the family of the man she was marrying a gift, like money to marry him) so they can pay for him to go to The Ganges and get healed because he is very ill. The story gets worse and worse for Koly (main character)
Homeless Bird is set in India. The main character is married at 13. The story is sad, but it has a beautiful ending and remains to be one of my favorites. It has a middle school reading level, which is about how old I was when I read it the first time.
To be honest I read this book because one of my teachers said I had to or they'd give me a red slip for being unprepared. So I read it and this book was amazing. This book is realistic-fiction. A 13 year old girl named Koly needs to get married. When she finally does her new husband falls deadly ill. meanwhile the mother n' law hates her. Soon koly falls to be a Widow and so does her mother n' law suprisingly. Her new mother then takes her and koly to a city a very famous city. A city known for
A great book that talks about a young Indian widow struggling to survive in the corrupt streets of India
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