Chu

Chu Ju's House

By - Whelan, Gloria
Floor - Floor 3
Published - HarperCollins Publishers, New York, ©2004
ISBN 10 - 0439799554
ISBN 13 - 9780439799553
Book Status - 3 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - China
Shelf No - 2
Call Number - 808 WHE
Physical Description - 227 pages; Illustration 19 cm
Book Information
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 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 Ju 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, tearing a young woman from her family, sending her on a remarkable journey to find a home of her own.

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