First girl
By: Gloria Whelan
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781845078348; 9781845075941
Subjects: Family size; Juvenile fiction; Family policy; First-born daughters
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.