Chu Ju's house
By: Gloria Whelan
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780060507244; 9780060507251
Subjects: Runaways; Juvenile fiction; History; Sex role; Fiction
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.