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The bridge home

Venkatraman, Padma 1969- (author.).

Summary: Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this uncaring, dangerous world. Fortunately, the girls find shelter--and friendship--on an abandoned bridge. With two homeless boys, Muthi and Arul, the group forms a family of sorts. And while making a living scavenging the city's trash heaps is the pits, the kids find plenty to laugh about and take pride in too. After all, they are now the bosses of themselves and no longer dependent on untrustworthy adults. But when illness strikes, Viji must decide whether to risk seeking help from strangers or to keep holding on to their fragile, hard-fought freedom.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781524738112
  • ISBN: 1524738115
  • ISBN: 9781984813602
  • ISBN: 1984813609
  • ISBN: 9781524738136
  • ISBN: 1524738131
  • ISBN: 9781524738129
  • ISBN: 1524738123
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    194 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note: 1. Togetherness -- 2. Rotten Fruit -- 3. Breaking -- 4. Escape -- 5. Shards of Glass -- 6. Teashop -- 7. Lost Puppy -- 8 .On a Ruined Bridge -- 9. Laughter -- 10. Unwelcome -- 11. Orange -- 12. Choosing Family -- 13. Work and Pray -- 14. Climbing the Himalayas -- 15. Earning Our Way -- 16. The Blue Hills -- 17. How You Became a Businesswoman -- 18. Riches -- 19. Above a Silver River -- 20. Endless Mountains -- 21. Chased Away -- 22. The Graveyard -- 23. Wedding Breakfast -- 24. Believing and Imagining -- 25. Candles in the Dark -- 26. Pretend Princesses -- 27. Hungry Ghost -- 28. Divali Dusk -- 29.God's Worms -- 30. Muthu's Tale -- 31.Fever -- 32. The Price of Freedom -- 33. Lies -- 34.The Courage to Trust -- 35. Hospital -- 36. Gone -- 37.Stones -- 38. Good Is God -- 39. Losing and Finding -- 40. Hope -- 41. Bridges -- 42. Past and Present -- 43.Our Father -- 44. Wherever You Are.
Target Audience Note:
Sentence length: 2 (easy) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) lexile.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 5 Accelerated Reader Quiz #501239.
Reading Counts 3-5 4.2 10 76470.
Lexile 680L.
F&P X.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also available in electronic format.

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