New York: Hyperion, (2006.). First edition - Although her family thinks that she is being sent to India to work, a young girl from Nepal finds herself 'sold' - forced into prostitution. Finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult literature. A spare and powerful story of survival against almost unimaginable odds. The author's note at the end comments that every year 12,000 Nepali girls are sold unwittingly by their families into prostitution in India. 263 pp.