Desai, Anita, <br/><br/>
The village by the sea :   an Indian family story / 
Anita Desai.  
 - 157 pages :  illustrations ;   19 cm. 
<br/><br/> Lila is thirteen and her brother Hari only twelve, yet as the eldet children of a poor Indian family they have to cope when their parents cannot support them. Hari leaves the village to find work in the teeming city of Bombay, while Lila looks after her younger sisters and sick mother. They both have different challenges to face in this absorbing of life ij a rapidly changing country.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0435125257  Hadiah 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Families--Juvenile fiction. --India<br/>Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction. <br/>Poverty--Juvenile fiction.