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Author:

Ostlere, Cathy.

Title:

Karma : a novel in verse / Cathy Ostlere.

Publisher:

Razorbill,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

517 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Children of interfaith marriage--Juvenile fiction.
Children of suicide victims--Juvenile fiction.
Canadians--India--Juvenile fiction.
Mute persons--Juvenile fiction.
Gandhi, Indira,--1917-1984--Assassination--Juvenile fiction.
Children of interfaith marriage--Fiction.
Children of suicide victims--Fiction.
Canadians--India--Fiction.
Mute persons--Fiction.
Gandhi, Indira,--1917-1984--Assassination--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Novels in verse.
Young adult fiction.

Summary:

In 1984, following her mother's suicide, 15-year-old Maya and her Sikh father travel to New Delhi from Canada to place her mother's ashes in their final resting place. On the night of their arrival, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated, Maya and her father are separated when the city erupts in chaos, and Maya must rely on Sandeep, a boy she has just met, for survival.

ISBN:

1595143386
9781595143389

OCLC:

(OCoLC)656451817

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TOPB062 -- Blairstown Public Library (Blairstown)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

POSX851 -- Ballard Community High School (Huxley)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)