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Thank you to Penguin Random House Australia for supplying this book for review. I will use this for booktalks many times in the future and hope that by reading this book, young readers will progress to other memoirs throughout their reading life. Instead, it offers a story of survival, hope, determination and love. There are facets in this book that may be a little confronting for some readers, such as Saroo’s circumcision, but in no way is it inappropriate for younger readers.
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Readers will learn how love and determination can change one’s life. This book makes Saroo’s story accessible to younger readers. It not only traces his early life in India, but also his adoption and life in Australia, his quest and determination to find his birth family. This is the Saroo’s story adapted for younger readers. After no success he was sent to an orphanage, where Mrs Sood arranged his adoption to a family in far away Tasmania, Australia. During the search time he was in a juvenile detention centre. After meeting an older boy, he was taken to a police station in the hope they might find his family. He also experienced good fortune, such as being saved from drowning in the Hooghly River by the same man, twice. He came across many dangers and escaped many times. For a five year old in an overcrowded city with many homeless children, this was am amazing feat. Saroo spent many weeks trying to survive on the streets. Speaking only Hindi he was not only lost, but also unable to speak Bengali, the language of Kolkata.
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He travelled many hours to Kolkata, originally named Calcutta. Saroo Brierley was only five years old when he became lost on a train in India. Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia