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092    |fJ|aVENKATRA 
100 1  Venkatraman, Padma,|eauthor. 
245 14 The bridge home /|cPadma Venkatraman. 
264  1 New York :|bNancy Paulsen Books,|c[2019] 
300    194 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    680L Lexile 
520    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. 
521 8  680L|bLexile 
650  0 Homeless persons|vJuvenile fiction. 
650  0 Runaways|vJuvenile fiction. 
651  0 Chennai (India)|vJuvenile fiction. 
651  0 India|vJuvenile fiction.