The Horn Book Magazine, May 1st, 2004
Gloria Whelan Chu Ju's House 230 pp. HarperCollins 4/04 ISBN 0-06-050724-1 15.99 g Library edition ISBN 0-06-050725-X 16.89 (Intermediate, Middle School)
A young girl from a rural village in southern China looks back on her four-year search for a home of her own. On the eve of the twenty-first century, China's policies for controlling its birthrate provide a convenient person-against-society conflict to set the plot in motion. Chu Ju is fourteen when her family's second daughter is born; her farmer parents need a son to inherit and work the land. As her grandmother plans to give the baby aw...
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