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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Venkatraman, Padma.
Title: The bridge home / Padma Venkatraman.
Description: New York, NY: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2019.
Summary: Four determined homeless children make
a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018035686 | ISBN 9781524738112 (hardback) | ISBN 9781524738129 (ebook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Homeless persons—Fiction. | Runaways—Fiction. | Chennai (India)—Fiction. | India—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings. | JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Asia. | JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Runaways.
Classification: LCC PZ7.V5578 Br 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035686
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cover art © 2019 by Jennifer Bricking.