Title: First girl
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.
Subjects: Family size, Juvenile fiction, Family policy, First-born daughters, Children's fiction, Family, fiction, China, fiction
Places: China