Children of the River (Laurel-Leaf Contemporary Fiction)
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...
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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?
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440210221 (0440210224)
Publish date: August 1st 1991
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Pages no: 213
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Realistic Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
20th Century,
High School