Sold Resources

McCormick is not an author who shrinks from edgy subjects like human trafficking, child soldiering, or self-mutilation. Check out her other books at her website.

This page provides tons of information, including a history of sex trafficking and the role NGOs play—and it's all focused on Nepal, where our story begins.

You bet. News organizations across the world have human trafficking stories fairly regularly. Look at this one from the New York Times that focuses specifically on Nepal.

Good—that's McCormick's point. Check out these two websites for ways you can help human trafficking survivors in Nepal and the United State.

We'll let her tell you in her own words.

McCormick talks about the biggest challenges she had in writing the novel.

It's not oil or corn—it's children. This preview for the movie Sold helps shine some light on the issue.

Especially when President Obama addresses the issue at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in 2012.

While Sold is fictional, there are plenty of non-fiction resources. To learn more about human trafficking, watch the documentary The Day My God Died. But be warned: the film talks about violence, sexual abuse, and heartbreaking stories of real victims of human trafficking.

McCormick and other participants explain the values and dangers of the dark turn in adolescent literature to listeners of NPR.

We know that girls and boys are treated differently in Nepal and India. But for a weird correlation between technology and birth rate statistics, take a listen to this Freakonomics podcast. Be forewarned: there is discussion of sex-selection of babies and abortion.

McCormick doesn't look like someone who has won several awards for her dark adolescent literature.

And it's easy to see this in McCormick's book cover for Sold.