num_pages: 213
description: Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian girl" at home. A good Cambodian girl never dates; she waits for her family to arrange her marriage to a Cambodian boy. Yet Sundara and Jonathan, an extraordinary American boy, are powerfully drawn to each other. Haunted by grief for her lost family and for the life left behind, Sundara longs to be with him. At the same time she wonders, Are her hopes for happiness and new life in America disloyal to her past and her people?
language: English
title: Children of the River
titlecomplete: Children of the River
genres: Historical, Young Adult, Read For School, Middle Grade, School, Romance, Historical Fiction, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 1888
places: Oregon
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award
category: Older Reader Category, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult
publisher: Laurel Leaf