When told what would happen to one of the girls' child if she tried to run away, Lakshmi looks at it and at the soap operas on the television (page 168): 'And so I consider a world so ugly that a child would be maimed for life to fetch an extra rupee or two. But I do not cry.' Lakshmi is brave and resilient. When she is taken to Happiness House to work and locked in a room (page 108): 'I pound on the door. My burden is heavy.' That broke my heart. In 'What I Carry' (page 60) we find her leaving her home: 'My bundle is light. I made note of a handful of passages while reading. And, when she finally understands the gravity of the system, she's brave enough to try something to save herself. but she's still a little girl at heart, amazingly. She quickly goes from an innocent little girl to a brothel employee in another country.

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The reader does, of course, but many of her statements throughout are still incredibly powerful. And even as it's happening, she doesn't understand the magnitude. However, she doesn't know what's really happening. But she is sold to a child trafficker who promises her family the money they will need to have food for their whole family and to have a tin roof she has seen this work out for her friend's family. She has hope, an education, and a loving family. When we meet her, she is a young girl living a simple life in poverty. It might even be called a book of prose poems. It's easy to read, though, and easy to get drawn into Lakshmi's world. Luckily, this is the perfect book to read in small chunks, because almost every page is its own chapter some pages are extremely short and some chapters are a few pages. This book took me weeks to finish, just because I read it in little segments (usually every morning while I got my allergy shot). I found myself looking up Anuradha Koriala (CNN Hero of 2010) and her organization, Maiti Nepal, more than once while I read. I actually find it easier to feel the emotional impact of things like this by reading fictional versions, though a healthy dose of the real is good as well. Therefore, reading SOLD was another look at what happens all to often. His book is a memoir about working with orphans in Nepal and setting up an organization children who were trafficked called Next Generation Nepal.

I also recently read Little Princes by Conor Grennan and I look forward to seeing Grennan speak next month at the Fall for the Book Festival. I knew it was a huge and widespread problem, but the numbers and stories were horrible. The presentation I listened to online with one lawyer in Florida who specializes in child trafficking shocked me. One of the more recent horcruxes we fought against with the Harry Potter Alliance was the child slavery horcrux.

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