Laskar Pelangi menceritakan tentang cerita asli penulisnya. Penulisnya bernama Andrea Hirata yang biasa disebut Ikal (pada novel tersebut). Isi ceritanya menjelaskan tentang perjalanan dirinya dengan temannya sebagai pelajar, dimana persahabatan yang mendasari ceritanya. Mereka semua memiliki cita-cita dan saling membantu menggapai mimpi di tengah kemiskinan di Belitung. || Gwendo 12.2 G(R)ES -…
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. [Colorado Mountain College Library]