She lives in New York with two children, a husband and two cats. She has written for The New York Times, Parents Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Ladies Home Journal, Town & Country, More, Reader’s Digest, Mademoiselle and other publications and has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an instructor of creative writing at the New School University. Her awards include the American Library Association Best Book of the Year, New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenaged and the Children’s Literature Council’s Choice. Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi lives with her. Who is the main character in this book (age, gender, name) What is her life like What point of view is this story told from 2. This was followed by My Brother's Keeper in 2005, about a boy struggling with his brother's addiction and Sold in 2006. A powerful novel written in vignettes about a a Nepalese girl who risks everything for a chance to reclaim her life. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. Her first novel for teens was Cut, about a young woman who self-injures herself. ( 845 ratings ) About this audiobook Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1986 and an M.F.A. She graduated from Rosemont College in 1978, followed by an M.S. Patricia McCormick is a journalist and writer.
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