SOLD

The name of the second book I chose to read is called SOLD.   It is written by Patrica McCormick.   It has a national book award finalist sticker on it.   A Quil Award winner, and An ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults.   Copy writed in 2006.  I chose this book because it is about this young 13 year old girl named Lakshmi, who was sold into the prostitution ring, that just happen to take place around this world all the time.  It also  happens a lot in the third world countries because they are so poor they have no other means of supporting their families other than to have there children go and do this sort of horendious crime that takes place against there childs innosence.   I myself find that this is a awful crime against the children of this world and very much needs to be stopped.   I think that the parents ought to be put in jail and so should the people that do this sort of crime against a child.  It is moraly wrong in my book.   I hate to say this sometimes but I admit it. because as a child I was molested and my heart aches to see it happen to any child in this world.  I would never do that to my children, I would die first and take them with me just to protect them from this awful world out there like that.   The story takes place in a small village in Nepal, in the Himalayan Mountains, of India.   Lalshmi's family is dirt poor.   They live in a small mud and straw shack, that has a roof that leaks and a dirt floor.  Her stepfather can not work because he has a crippled arm and her mother Ama doen't work.  her Stepfather is a gambler and spends his time with the old men in the village drinking and gambleing away  most of their money.  The family tries desperately to plant rice patty crops but alot of it gets destoyed by the monsoon season there.  this causes her stepfather to sell her into the prostitution ring, to provide for their family.   She has one baby brother named and a goat named Tali, she had four other siblings but they all died as babies.  Most of the babies die there because of the poverty level.