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The novel Sold by Patricia McCormick, tells a story of a 13 year old girl named Lakshmi living with her family on a mountaintop in Nepal. Lakshmi’s stepfather is an addicted gambler who loses away the family’s finances. Her family is desperately poor, but when the monsoons destroys her family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she needs to have a job to support her family; however, finds herself manipulated and sold into prostitution by her stepfather.

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The novel Sold by Patricia McCormick, tells a story of a 13 year old girl named Lakshmi living with her family on a mountaintop in Nepal. Lakshmi’s stepfather is an addicted gambler who loses away the family’s finances. Her family is desperately poor, but when the monsoons destroys her family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she needs to have a job to support her family; however, finds herself manipulated and sold into prostitution by her stepfather.