Myth and Punishment

Twelve-year-old, US born, East Indian Adina is searching for a lost family jewel. Her nani, maternal grandmother, claims to have offered the jewel to one of the Hindu gods in return for a grandchild, resulting in Adina's birth. The family jewels are an Indian girl's birthright, and should have come to Adina, but her mother secretly sold off the jewels, in defiance of Hindu tradition, after she divorced Adina's father when Adina was two. So the lost "crown" jewel is the only one left...if Ad...