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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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1 edition- Other · English · 2007Frances Lincoln · 175 pages · 9781845078348
Family sizeJuvenile fictionFamily policyFirst-born daughtersChildren's fictionFamily, fictionChina, fiction