Teen guess blogger Sarah recommended Chu Ju’s House. She said, “this book shows the life of a Chinese girl who needs to leave home so her parents will be allowed to have another child. I love Chu Ju’s courage and endurance throughout all of the adverse situations she lives through. This novel helped me understand the difficult situations many girls in China must live through."
In China, families are limited to two children so when fourteen-year-old Chu Ju's mother gets pregnant again the entire family prays for a boy. When a girl is born, Chu Ju overhears her grandmother trying to talk her mother into sending the baby to an orphanage so they can try again for a boy. To save her sister, Chu Ju runs away and thus begin her adventures in modern day China. She explores her country as she travels from one place she think might be her new home to the next, finally being taken under the wing of the gentle farmerwoman Han Na.
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