| Children of the River Contributor(s): Crew, Linda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0440210224 ISBN-13: 9780440210221 Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: August 1991 Annotation: Grades 7 and up Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration - Young Adult Fiction | Coming Of Age - Young Adult Fiction | Family - Multigenerational |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 88020401 |
| Lexile Measure: 700 |
| Series: Laurel-Leaf Contemporary Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.2" W x 6.8" (0.25 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 606 Reading Level: 4.3 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child. Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian girl" at home. A good Cambodian girl never dates; she waits for her family to arrange her marriage to a Cambodian boy. Yet Sundara and Jonathan, an extraordinary American boy, are powerfully drawn to each other. Haunted by grief for her lost family and for the life left behind, Sundara longs to be with him. At the same time she wonders, Are her hopes for happiness and new life in America disloyal to her past and her people? |