Saraswati's way / Monika Schröder.
Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374364113
- ISBN: 0374364117
- ISBN: 9781250044204
- ISBN: 1250044200
- Physical Description: 233 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010.
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- Target Audience Note:
- 790L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 5.1 6 SD Quiz 141052 English fiction.Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.1 6 141052.
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| Alleghany Public Library | JF SCHRODER (Text) | 40599000826902 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
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Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.
