The riveting story of a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai, where access to water is limited to a few hours a day and the communal taps have long lines. Lately, though, even that access is threatened by severe water shortages and thieves who are stealing this precious commodity -- an act that Minni accidentally witnesses one night. Meanwhile, in the high-rise building where she just started to work, she discovers that water streams out of every faucet and there's even a rooftop swimming pool. What Minni also discovers there is one of the water mafia bosses. Now she must decide whether to expose him and risk her job and maybe her life. How did something as simple as access to water get so complicated?
This book was a real eye opener about how some people live in India. I know this is a fiction book and the characters are not real, but the author noted in the back of the book that some of the stories were true and were about her growing up in India. I really think children will like this book because if has some humor, some adventure and a lot of family! Some of it seemed unrealistic with a young girl running a whole household while her mother was sick and father worked, but in reality I think this could happen in some of their villages. It also made me more thankful that I don't have to take things like water for granted!
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