Sheth, Kashmira.

Keeping corner / Kashmira Sheth. - 1st ed. - New York : Hyperion, c2007. - 281 p. ; 22 cm.

In India in the 1940's, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

ISBN: 0786838590 (reinforced) : $15.99 9780786838592 (reinforced) : $15.99

LCCN: 2007015314

Subjects--Personal Names:
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Family--India--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Child marriage--Fiction.
Women's rights--Fiction.
IB
International Literature

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Children's stories.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]