Chu Ju's house /
Gloria Whelan.
- 1st ed.
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2004.
- 227 p. ; 19 cm.
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.