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About this book
When their family falls on hard times, thirteen-year-old Lila and her twelve-year-old brother, Hari, try desperately to keep their home intact--an almost impossible task until Hari gets a chance to go to Bombay and returns with some positive plans for the future.
- Fiction
- Family life
- Social life and customs
- Young adult fiction
- Manners and customs
- English fiction
- Children's fiction
- Indians of north america, fiction
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