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Title Statement | The tiffin / [electronic resource]. Mahtab Narsimhan. |
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Author | Narsimhan, Mahtab |
Publication | 2011. |
Extent of Item | 1 online resource |
ISBN | 9781770860407 (electronic bk) |
Audience & Ratings | Text Difficulty 3 MG+/Upper middle grades (6th-12th) 4.7 |
Summary | Shortlisted for the 2012 CLA Book of the Year for Children Shortlisted for the 2013 SYRCA Diamond Willow Award Shortlisted for the 2013 OLA Red Maple Fiction Award Shortlisted for the 2013 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award The dabbawallas of Mumbai deliver box lunches — called tiffins — to whitecollar workers all over the vast city. They are legendary for their near-perfect service: for every six million lunches sent, only one will fail to reach its intended destination. The Tiffin is about that one time in millions when a box goes astray, changing lives forever. When a note placed in a tiffin is lost, a newborn — Kunal — is separated from his mother. Twelve years later, Kunal lives as a virtual slave under the thumb of his foster father, Seth. With danger and oppression making it impossible to stay where he is, Kunal asks his friend Vinayak, an aging dabbawalla, to help him find his birth mother. Vinayak introduces Kunal to the tiffin carriers, and a plan is hatched. Along the way, Kunal learns what it means to be part of a family. |
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By Topic | Juvenile Fiction |
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By Genre | Electronic books |
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