02275cam a2200397 i 4500 276786343 TxAuBib 20161018120000.0 160222s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016008709 9781629722245 1629722243 TxAuBib rda Wright, Camron Steve,. The orphan keeper : a novel, based on a true story / Camron Wright with Dave Pliler. Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain, [2016] ©2016. 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes author's note and study guide (page 411-418.) Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage that he is not an orphan, he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry, he will soon be adopted by a loving family in America. Chellamuthu is suddenly surrounded by a foreign land and a foreign language. He can't tell people that he already has a family and becomes consumed by a single, impossible question: How do I get home? But after more than a decade, home becomes a much more complicated idea as the Indian boy eventually sheds his past and receives a new name: Taj Khyber Rowland. It isn't until Taj meets an Indian family who helps him rediscover his roots, as well as marrying Priya, his wife, who helps him unveil the secrets of his past, that he begins to discover the truth he has all but forgotten. 20161018. Kidnapping victims Fiction. Adoptees Identification Fiction. Adoptees Identification. East Indian Americans Fiction. East Indian Americans. Kidnapping victims. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. Pliler, David,.