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Original Title:	Homeless Bird
ISBN:	0064408191 (ISBN13: 9780064408196)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	India
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2000), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2002), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award Nominee (2001), Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Nominee (2001)

Homeless Bird

Gloria Whelan

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 11721 Users | 1451 Reviews

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Title	:	Homeless Bird
Author	:	Gloria Whelan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	August 21st 2001 by HarperCollins (first published March 1st 2000)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. India. Childrens. Middle Grade. Realistic Fiction

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Like many girls her age in the India of her time period, thirteen-year-old-Koly is getting married. Full of hope and courage, she leaves home forever. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled about exactly what she is marrying into. Her future, it would seem, is lost. Yet this rare young woman, bewildered and brave, sets out to forge her own exceptional future.

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Homeless Bird is set in India. The main character is married at 13. The story is sad, but it has a beautiful ending and remains to be one of my favorites. It has a middle school reading level, which is about how old I was when I read it the first time.

I know this book is probably for like middle schoolers but I loved it. Koly's parents marry her off without seeing the groom and she ends up married to a sick boy whose parents needed the dowry money for his treatment. It all works out as well as you'd expect but eventually she rebuilds her life. I honestly felt so upset for Koly and the way she was treated through out the book. I loved the writing and the narrative and the details the author added only pulled me in to the story more. I can not

This is such an inspiring story of finding home. I could not put it down until I finished it. I've met Gloria Whelan, who lives in MI, and she's a wonderful lady. It's fascinating that she can weave such seamless tales of different places and cultures using her own research and imagination. I was amazed to learn what happens to widows in parts of India, left to starve, homeless and often penniless. It's shameless and cruel. But the real heart of the story is in the innocent and somewhat naïve

Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan, is a book about a young woman in India. Koly is a poor girl in India. When her family needs more money for food, they arrange for her to marry a young man in a different city. When she meets her husband, she learns that his family has been keeping many secrets. I enjoyed learning about life in India in this book. I thought the characters were really interesting. I especially liked how persistent Koly was. You should read this book if you're interested in

Koly is forced into an arranged marriage, with a cruel mother-in-law, a sickly husband, and a spoiled yet sweet sister-in-law. She learns to read, and yearns to flee. But one day, she is no longer a homeless bird.

So emotional and touching. This book has been a pageturner. The book is full of death, love, hope, and the cruelness of the world.

So there I was in an English Department meeting and Tasche says, "You really should've read this book," since it was on the incoming Freshmen's Summer Reading list. I sat there dumbfounded, not realizing it was on their reading list nor that I had actually read it three or four years ago. It's not that it's a nondescript book, quite the opposite, but you know how it is sometimes when you've zipped through so many short-short good reads and you forget one because a more powerful novel by