Chu Ju's House

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Call Number: Y Fiction / Whelan, Gloria
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Whelan, Gloria	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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.

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Only 2 kids? submitted by thesrays on July 6, 2018, 3:41pm Chinese law only allowed families to have two children. Chu Ju's mother is pregnant. But will the child be a boy and bring honor to the family? If not, what will happen to the child? This story draws you into an exciting adventure.