Chandra was eleven and she was about to be married to a boy aged sixteen. What could go wrong to spoil her happiness? However, out in the desert she realized she was alone and far from home. As she sat alone in her little room, she tried to remember who she was, and she hung on to her name.

Chandra was eleven and she was about to be married to a boy aged sixteen. What could go wrong to spoil her happiness? But out in the desert she realized she was alone and far from home. She sat in the darkness of her little room, unwilling to accept what had happened to her. She tried to remember who she was, she hung on to her name. `My name is Chandra, And I'll not let it be forgotten.' Chandra won The Writer's Guild Award for a children's novel and the Lancashire Book Award. This book is intended for interest age: 12+