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Maya Running Anjali Banerjee Random House Children's Books © 2005 |
Maya Mukherjee is of Hindi and Bengali descendants and lives in Canada around the 1960s. She is constantly criticized by a group of boys and thinks of herself as the ugly duckling. Her cousin comes to visit and brings a god that many people from India believe in and she prays to this god and asks for everything she could ever want. Everything goes the exact opposite way she wanted and ends up enduring a journey to India to find her cousin’s statue of the god who made her life exactly the way she wanted wrong. Along her way she meets people who are so happy for what they have and what they have is nothing compared to Maya’s life. In the end she was perfectly fine with what she had, she just had to realize what she didn’t have wasn’t what she wanted.
I would recommend this book for anyone
and everyone. It was a wonderful book and really puts a perspective on life. You
really didn’t know what would happen next and if anything would ever be the way
she wanted it to be. Although this book is set in the 1960s and written today
the message is put across well and everyone should really enjoy this book.
~Kendahl Kreps, grade 8, Boardman Center Middle School