Children of the River
Children of the River
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Annotation: Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.
 
Reviews: 3
Catalog Number: #51958
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Publisher: Dell
Copyright Date: 1989
Edition Date: 1991 Release Date: 08/01/91
Pages: 213 pages
ISBN: Publisher: 0-440-21022-4 Perma-Bound: 0-8000-9408-5
ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-440-21022-1 Perma-Bound: 978-0-8000-9408-9
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 88020401
Dimensions: 18 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

A Cambodian girl who fled her country struggles to fit in to an American lifestyle. In PW 's words, ``The resolution comes smoothly and plausibly, offering a moving look at the way in which a survivor of great tragedy. . .faces young adulthood.'' Ages 12-up. (Sept.)

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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Wilson's Junior High Catalog
Word Count: 54,217
Reading Level: 4.3
Interest Level: 7-12
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.3 / points: 8.0 / quiz: 606 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:5.6 / points:9.0 / quiz:Q02130
Lexile: 700L
Guided Reading Level: X
Fountas & Pinnell: X

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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