Homeless Bird
2000 young adult novel by Gloria Whelan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Homeless Bird is a 2000 young adult novel by American author Gloria Whelan about a 13-year-old widow in the year 2000 in India. This book won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000.[1]
The title comes from a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. Whelan did not visit India but read extensively about the country before she wrote the book.[2] Her idea of the book came from a story on child widows and an exhibit on Asian embroidery in America.[3]