Chu Ju's house
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2004 - HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
56,750 words, Guess
Page Count
227 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivechujushouse00whel
- ISBN-100060507241
- ISBN-10006050725X
- ISBN-139780060507244
- ISBN-139780060507251
and 3 more
- Goodreads1130528', '1130527
- Library of Congress Control Number2003006979
- Open LibraryOL3673724M
Classifications
- DDC[Fic]
- LCCPZ7.W5718 Ch 2004
Description
One girl too many . . . When a girl is born to Chu Ju's family, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. After all, the law states that a family may have only two children, and tradition dictates that every family should have a boy. To make room for one, this girl will have to go. Fourteen-year-old Chu Ju knows she cannot allow this to happen to her sister. Understanding that one girl must leave, she sets out in the middle of the night, vowing not to return. With luminescent detail, National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan transports readers to China, where law conspires with tradition, tearing a young woman from her family, sending her on a remarkable journey to find a home of her own.
Description
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again.
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Genres
- Fiction
- Juvenile fiction
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