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Saraswati's way /

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, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schröder, Monika, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Street children > Fiction.
Education > Fiction.
Mathematics > Fiction.
Hindu goddesses > Fiction.
New Delhi (India) > Fiction.
India > Fiction.
Realistic fiction.
Education > Juvenile fiction.
Mathematics > Juvenile fiction.
Hindu goddesses > Juvenile fiction.
New Delhi (India) > Juvenile fiction.
India > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"Frances Foster books."
Physical Description:233 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780374364113 (alk. paper)
0374364117 (alk. paper)