Behind the beautiful forevers life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
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Large Print
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419 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Level 7.8, 14 Points

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Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter, Annawadi's "most-everything girl, " will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call "the full enjoy." But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.
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Accelerated Reader,Grades 9-12,7.8,14,SD,Quiz 156642,English non-fiction.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Boo, K. (20132012). Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity (Large print ed.). Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Boo, Katherine. 20132012. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 20132012.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Large print ed., Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 20132012.

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