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Chu Ju's House
Chu Ju's House
Author: Gloria Whelan
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. — One girl too many . . . — When a girl is born to Chu Ju's family, it is quickly determined ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780439799553
ISBN-10: 0439799554
Publication Date: 10/2005
Pages: 228
Rating:
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4.1 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Scholastic
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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In present-day rural China, 14-year-old Chu Ju's mother gives birth to her second child, another girl. When her grandmother makes plans to sell the baby, Chu Ju decides to leave home.

Simple stated in order to express a young girls determination to make it on her own in order allow her newborn sister to stay and not be sold. Eloquently written.
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One girl too many...

When a girl is born to Chu Ju's family, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. After all, the law states that a family may have only two children, and tradition dictates that every family should have a boy. To make room for one, this girl will have to go.

Fourteen year old Chu Ji knows she cannot allow this to happen to her sister. Understanding that one girl must leave, she sets out in the middle of the night, vowing not to return.

With luminescent detail, National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan transports readers to China, where law conspires with tradition, sending her on a remarkable journey to find a home of her own.
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this is a great book for all emerging readers


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