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Author Venkatraman, Padma, author.

Title The bridge home / Padma Venkatraman.

Publication Info. New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2019]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1944984~S1
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 95th Street Juvenile Fiction  J VENKATRA    AVAILABLE
 95th Street Juvenile Fiction  J VENKATRA    AVAILABLE
 95th Street Juvenile Fiction  J VENKATRA    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Juvenile Fiction  J VENKATRA    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Juvenile Fiction  J VENKATRA    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Juvenile Fiction  J VENKATRA    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Juvenile Fiction  J VENKATRA    DUE 05-13-24
 Nichols Juvenile Fiction  J VENKATRA    AVAILABLE
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Description 194 pages ; 22 cm
Summary When Viji and her sister, Rukku, whose developmental disability makes her overly trusting and vulnerable to the perils of the world, run away to live on their own, the situation could not be more grim. Life on the streets of the teeming city of Chennai is harsh for girls considered outcasts, but the sisters manage to find shelter on an abandoned bridge. There they befriend Muthi and Arul, two boys in a similar predicament, and the four children bond together and form a family of sorts. Viji starts working with the boys scavenging in trash heaps while Rukku makes bead necklaces, and they buy food with what little money they earn. They are often hungry and scared but they have each other--and Kutti, the best dog ever. When the kids are forced from their safe haven on the bridge, they take shelter in a graveyard. But it is now the rainy season and they are plagued by mosquitos, and Rukku and Muthu fall ill. As their symptoms worsen, Viji and Arul must decide whether to risk going for help--when most adults in their lives have proven themselves untrustworthy--or to continue holding on to their fragile, hard-fought freedom.
Audience 680L Lexile
Note 680L Lexile
Subject Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction.
Runaways -- Juvenile fiction.
Chennai (India) -- Juvenile fiction.
India -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN 9781524738112
1524738115
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