No ordinary day
Canada (romans), Auteurs canadiens (romans), Littérature générale (romans)
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
Jharia, India. Valli spends her days picking coal, terrified only of the monsters who live on the other side of the train tracks – the lepers. When she discovers that she is not living with family after all, that her… "aunt" was a stranger who was paid money to take Valli off her own family's hands, she goes to Kolkata, the city of the gods. She manages to survive on the streets, until a chance meeting with a doctor reveals that she too has leprosy. Despite being given a chance to receive medical care, she can’t bear the thought that she is one of those monsters she has always feared. Grades 4-7. 2011.