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Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl(r)
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
196 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1939, twelve-year-old Neela meets a young freedom fighter at her sister's wedding and soon after must rely on his help when her father fails to return home from a march in Calcutta against British occupation.
2) Ahimsa
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Gandhi asks for one member of each family to join the fight for independence from the British, and when ten-year-old Anjali's mother is jailed for doing so, Anjali must step out of her comfort zone to take over her mother's work.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
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