Chu Ju's House is a children's novel by Gloria Whelan. [1] It was first published in 2004. [2] This book is the story of a fourteen-year-old girl who lives in China.

Jan 1, 2004 · With luminescent detail, National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan transports readers to China, where law conspires with tradition, tearing a young woman from …

Sep 5, 2020 · 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 …

Chu Ju walks many days, keeping away from the villages because she has heard rumors that girls there are kidnapped and forced to become wives. She tries to find work among the farmers …

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...

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.

Apr 1, 2004 · Fourteen-year-old Chu Ju makes the wrenching decision to leave her peasant farm home and baby sister in post–Cultural Revolution China in order to give her parents one last …