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Zia, Farhana

Child of Spring

188 pp. | Peachtree | March, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-56145-904-9 $16.95
(3) 4-6 Basanta lives in a busti, a community of huts, in India. She and her mother work as servants, and Basanta often chafes at her treatment by her rich teenage mistress. Through varying relationships with other kids of her village, many more impoverished than she, Basanta realizes some important truths in this satisfying everyday story of modern Indian life. A Hindi glossary is appended.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

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