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.
- ISBN10 0061780561
- ISBN13 9780061780561
- Publish Date 16 December 2008 (first published 1 April 2004)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 11 April 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperCollins
- Format eBook
- Pages 240
- Language English