Thirst
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · April 18, 2023
This New York Times Bestseller features a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone.
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- Who it’s for
- A water crisis gives one girl’s difficult choice urgent, human stakes.
- Genres
- Homelessness & Poverty, Environment & Conservation, Stories Set in Asia
- Published
- Penguin Young Readers Group, April 18, 2023
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This New York Times Bestseller features a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai, where access to water is limited to a few hours a day and the communal taps have long lines. Lately, though, even that access is threatened by severe water shortages and thieves who are stealing this precious commodity—an act that Minni accidentally witnesses one night.
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Meanwhile, in the high-rise building where she just started to work, she discovers that water streams out of every faucet and there’s even a rooftop swimming pool. Then one day, Minni encounters the water mafia boss and faces her biggest dilemma yet—should she expose him even if it means risking her job . . . and maybe her life? How did her future get so complicated?
Water’s Unequal Share
A water crisis gives one girl’s difficult choice urgent, human stakes.
Come here for
- A young girl’s perspective on unequal access to water
- Tension where scarcity meets startling abundance
Expect
- A Mumbai story shaped by poverty and water shortages
- A dilemma with risks to Minni’s job—and possibly her life
Where it sits
| Environment & Conservation | 79% |
|---|---|
| Homelessness & Poverty | 68% |
| Stories Set in Asia | 53% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Environment & Conservation
- Stories Set in Asia
- Homelessness & Poverty
- Authors
- Varsha Bajaj
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- April 18, 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Environment & Conservation