Chu Ju's house

By Gloria Whelan

Subjects: Runaways, fiction, Sex role, Fiction, Children's fiction, Runaways, Juvenile fiction, History, China, fiction, Sex role, fiction

Description: 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.