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Reviewed By: Alex Durfee

By: Patricia McCormic
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
263 pages

The book sold is about a young girl Lakshmi who grew up and her family seemed to be doing okay until disaster struck. Lakshmi was just like any other girl in the rural area, even though her family was very poor and her father drank and gambled most of their extra money away, life was pretty good. Up until their crop was ruined, Lakshmi was forced to leave her town and find work to help support her family. She thinks she will be working as a maid in the city when really her father sells her and her body. You read her heart breaking story of her time at the "Happiness House" where she is forced to do things against her will to work off a debt. As heart breaking as the story is it is also a very eye opening one. It provides a very real insight on things that happen in sex slavery. Which to many people is a fairy tail or not even an issue to be considered because "It doesn't happen here." When in fact it happens everywhere. I would highly recommend this book to everyone who is of eligible age to take such matters seriously.