Whelan, Gloria.

Chu Ju's house / Gloria Whelan. - 1st Harper Trophy ed. - New York : HarperTrophy, 2005, c2004. - 227 p. ; 20 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0060507268 (pbk.) 9780060507268 (pbk.) 0439799554 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Runaways--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China--History--1976-2002--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.W5718 / Ch 2005

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]