No Ticket, Will Travel

By:

Subuhi Jiwani

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: India Karadi Tales October 1, 2020Description: 67 Pages PaperbackISBN:

9788194407171

Genre/Form:

Realistic Fiction

DDC classification:

Summary: I can’t buy a ticket, but I really need to get on this train . . . Chandrasekhar waits for a job and dreams of being back home with a classmate he’s in love with. Aruna has lost a slipper, and it was her only pair. Balu wishes he could trade his jackhammer for a poetry book. Sadia and her son are sleeping beside their handmade dolls, wondering what the future holds. Anjanamma makes up a story to soothe the relentless sting of mosquitoes. Nagaraju sightlessly navigates the chaos of a train station and puts out a plea to the universe. Subuhi Jiwani traces six uncertain journeys from Andhra Pradesh to Kochi, of migrants in search of work, survival and belonging.

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Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Junior Library Realistic Fiction Junior library	Fiction	JIW	2	Checked out to Shaurya Goyal (FSK2018134)	Realistic Fiction	2025-09-20	FS25020133		BYMR Grade 6 2025-26
Junior Library Realistic Fiction Junior library	Fiction	JIW	1	Available	Realistic Fiction		JS23053745		BYMR Grade 6 2025-26

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I can’t buy a ticket, but I really need to get on this train . . .
Chandrasekhar waits for a job and dreams of being back home with a classmate he’s in love with. Aruna has lost a slipper, and it was her only pair. Balu wishes he could trade his jackhammer for a poetry book. Sadia and her son are sleeping beside their handmade dolls, wondering what the future holds. Anjanamma makes up a story to soothe the relentless sting of mosquitoes. Nagaraju sightlessly navigates the chaos of a train station and puts out a plea to the universe.
Subuhi Jiwani traces six uncertain journeys from Andhra Pradesh to Kochi, of migrants in search of work, survival and belonging.
Realistic Fiction

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