Chu Ju's house /

Whelan, Gloria.

Chu Ju's house / Gloria Whelan. - 1st Harper Trophy ed. - New York : HarperTrophy, 2005, c2004. - 227 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2004.

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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Runaway teenagers--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.


China--History--1976---Fiction.

PZ7.W5718 / Ch 2005

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