CHU JU’S HOUSE

By: Leo, Isabel, Matt, and Makayla

Summary

Chu ju's House is about a teenage girl, Chu Ju, who runs away from home after her mom gives birth to a baby girl. During this time period in China, each family is allowed only 2 children, but they need a boy to bring honor to her family. To solve this problem, Chu Ju decides to run away. She keeps running and eventually comes across a boat. She hides under a net, and eventually gets found by the owners of the boat. She stays and works with them, untill they found out that she ran away from home.   She runs away from them because they were going to take her back to her house.  She ends up at a silk farm, where the two people who own it are evil. The head of the harvesting leaves part beats all the young girls wwho work there, and the head of thesilkworms who eat the leaves is very strict and yells at all of them.  She runs away after sending a letter to the head of the orphanage that supplies the young female workers that the living conditions were horrible, and that the bosses were too strict.  She runs to a house with an elderly woman named Ha Na and her son, Quan,  who take her in as a daughter. Then Quan leaves to the city Shaing Hi, and gets arrested. What will become of Chu Ju and Ha Na? Read the book to find out.

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About The Author, Gloria Whelan Born: November 23rd 1923 Where: Detroit, MI Job: Author & Poet Has won National Book Award Collage: Michigan Earned B.S. and M.S.W. degrees Married: Joseph L. Whelan

Other Books by Gloria Whelan The Locked Garden (2009) After the Train (2009) The Disappeared (2008) Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers (picture book) (2008) Parade of Shadows (2007) Yatandou (picture book) (2007) Summer of the War (2006) The Turning (Russian Saga / Book 4) (2006) Mackinac Bridge / The Story of the Five-Mile Poem (picture book)

(2006) Listening for Lions (2005) Chu Ju's House (2004) Burying the Sun (Russian Saga / Book 3) (2004)

Continued

Friend on Freedom River (picture book) (2004) The Impossible Journey (Russian Saga / Book 2) (2003) A Haunted House in Starvation Lake (Starvation Lake / Book 4) (2003) Are There Bears in Starvation Lake? (Starvation Lake / Book 3) (2002) The Wanigan: A Life on the River (2002) Fruitlands: Louisa May Alcott Made Perfect (2002) Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie (picture book) (2002) Rich and Famous in Starvation Lake (Starvation Lake / Book 2) (2001) Angel on the Square (Russian Saga / Book 1) (2001) Homeless Bird (2000) Welcome to Starvation Lake (Starvation Lake / Book 1) (2000) Return to the Island (Mackinac Island Trilogy / Book 3) (2000)

Continued

Miranda's Last Stand (1999) Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky (1998) Farewell to the Island (Mackinac Island Trilogy / Book 2) (1998) The Shadow of the Wolf (1997) The Miracle of St. Nicholas (picture book) (1997) Friends (1997) The Indian School (1996) Once On This Island (Mackinac Island Trilogy / Book 1) (1995) That Wild Berries Should Grow (1994) Night of the Full Moon (Libby Mitchell Trilogy / Book 2) (1993) Goodbye, Vietnam (1992) Bringing the Farmhouse Home (picture book) (1992)

Continued

Hannah (1991) The Secret Keeper (1990) Silver (1988) A Week of Raccoons (picture book) (1988) Playing With Shadows (adult book) (1988) The Ambassador's Wife (adult book) The President's Mother (adult book) Next Spring an Oriole (Libby Mitchell Trilogy / Book 1) (1987) The Pathless Woods (1981) A Time to Keep Silent (1979) A Clearing in the Forest (1978)