Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.

Most people believe sex trafficking in the United States involves young women from foreign lands, but the vast majority of teens caught in the sex trade are American girls -- the runaways and throwaways few people care about. Hundreds of thousands of prostituted children walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street corners of our cities. The author takes the reader behind the scenes to expose...

Presents an overview of the problem of teenage prostitutes, including some of the causes and consequences of this phenomenon and what can be done to prevent it.

Nine years after they are abducted and forced into child prostitution, two abandoned teenagers struggle to cope with their trauma on the streets of San Diego.

A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation.
A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate...

As Kat shares her harrowing experiences, her ultimate escape, and her passionate efforts to now free other victims, you'll see that not only is sex trafficking happening frighteningly close to home -- it's also something that can be stopped

A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.