Chu Ju's House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chu Ju's House write by Gloria Whelan. This book was released on 2009-10-06. Chu Ju's House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One girl too many . . . When a girl is born to Chu Ju's family, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. After all, the law states that a family may have only two children, and tradition dictates that every family should have a boy. 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. Understanding that one girl must leave, she sets out in the middle of the night, vowing not to return. With luminescent detail, National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan transports readers to China, where law conspires with tradition, tearing a young woman from her family, sending her on a remarkable journey to find a home of her own.
Homeless Bird
Homeless Bird - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homeless Bird write by Gloria Whelan. This book was released on 2009-10-06. Homeless Bird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The National Book Award-winning novel about one remarkable young woman who dares to defy fate, perfect for readers who enjoyed A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park or Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly faces her arranged marriage with hope and courage. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled—her life has been sold for a dowry. Can she forge her own future, even in the face of time-worn tradition? Perfect for schools and classrooms, this universally acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning novel by master of historical fiction Gloria Whelan is a gripping tale of hope that will transport readers of all ages.
Hope Was Here
Hope Was Here - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hope Was Here write by Joan Bauer. This book was released on 2005-06-02. Hope Was Here available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers fell in love with teenage waitress Hope Yancey when Joan Bauer’s Newbery Honor–winning novel was published ten years ago. Now, with a terrific new jacket and note from the author, Hope’s story will inspire a new group of teen readers.
Nory Ryan's Song
Nory Ryan's Song - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nory Ryan's Song write by Patricia Reilly Giff. This book was released on 2009-02-19. Nory Ryan's Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin Bay, but this year, a terrible blight attacks the potatoes. No crop means starvation. Twelve-year-old Nory must summon the courage and ingenuity to find food, to find hope, to find a way to help her family survive.
A Million Shades of Gray
A Million Shades of Gray - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Million Shades of Gray write by Cynthia Kadohata. This book was released on 2010-01-05. A Million Shades of Gray available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A boy and his elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village immediately after the Vietnam war.
