Whelan, Gloria.

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.

0060507241 006050725X (lib. bdg.)

2003006979


Runaways--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.


China--History--1976-2002--Juvenile fiction.
China--History--1976-2002--Fiction.

PZ7.W5718 / Ch 2004

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