Chu Ju's House by Gloria Whelan
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Book Reviews of Chu Ju's House
Book Review: Worthy of your time AND money
Summary: 5 Stars
Gloria Whelan, author of The Island Trilogy and Homeless Bird, follows through with the superb story of a young girl named Chu Ju who must flee from her family's home so that her baby sister may have life. This is a touching account of the sad reality of female experiences in a society where males are prized and females are denigrated. Though this is a book with a female protagonist, this is a book that appeals equally to both boys and girls. Although some of the relationships featured in the book seem hyperbolized and farfetched, the truthful actuality of the matter is that there are many instances where girls are treated even worse.
Chu Ju's House is a treasure for any library. Whelan is marvelous at forming a story that makes you want to reach out and help Chu Ju. It is inspiring and eye-opening, beautiful and heart-wrenching, and easy-to-read yet difficult to swallow. With uncomplicated language and written in first-person narrative, Chu Ju's House is effortlessly comprehensible. An excellent choice of a book for classroom discussion, Chu Ju's House is full of instances that children can relate to: the torturous feeling of being unaccepted, and of feeling worthless and unwanted. Which child has never felt left out and alone? This is a book that not only touches on these topics, but wholly revolves around it. Chu Ju's House is a good read for child and adult alike. It teaches the values of self-acceptance and forgiveness, and inner strength when everyone is seemingly at odds with what you need and want.
Book Review: Chu Ju's house this is one level higher than ok
Summary: 4 Stars
it has a good start and it bulids up to keep readers well.... reading.Book Review: The Wonderful House of Chu Ju
Summary: 5 Stars
Chu Ju's House is about a family of a mom, dad, grandmother, and a daughter. In there country, china, it is very depressing to have a girl as a child. They think they do not work hard, are weak, and are useless. If they have a boy, they are very pleased because they work harder and are strong. One day when Chu Ju finds out her mom is going to have a baby she was excited yet scared because if it is a boy they won't pay any attention to her and if it is a girl one of them will have to go away so the government won't know about it. Her mom had the baby and it was a girl. They were very depressed but Chu Ju wasn't she would have someone new to be with her. Then she thought again that one of them had to go and her mom and dad were talking and it was going to be the new baby since it was the youngest. Then though out the days Chu Ju and the new baby got really attached and close. So Chu Ju decides to name the baby Hua. A few weeks passed and then her mom got a little closer to Hua. Then when the lady came to pick Hua up her and the grand mother argued on the baby and the price. Then her mom was in the corner crying and screaming that she didn't want the baby to go and she didn't want the baby to go as much as Chu Ju did. Then Chu Ju convinced the lady and the grandmother that if the e mom it crying that hard for the baby it should stay. And finally the lady left and Hua stayed!!!! Book Review: A Wake Up Call For American Girls...
Summary: 4 Stars
Chu Ju is a poor daughter on a Chinese "farm". Her parents have a baby... and this baby is another girl. In China, urban families may have one child; rural families may have 2. And they all want boys. In order to save her sister, Chu Ju runs away...
The rest is the story of Chu Ju's growth, and at the same time is a cultural revelation of China. There is an emphasis on a few of the rural industries of China and how they work; be it farming, fishin,g or silk farming. These snapshots are quite interesting. There is quite a heavy hand on the fact people in China can go to jail for talking about the wrong ideas or reading the wrong books or even being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
This was very good book, with a good exposure to the beauty and utter foreign-ness of China.
Book Review: Chu Ju's House
Summary: 4 Stars
The story of a young girl growing up in rural Communist China. When Chu Ju's mother gives birth to another girl instead of the hoped-for boy, her grandmother declares that they will give the baby away to an orphanage, as the family can't afford the exhorbitant fines they'd need to pay in order to have a third child, trying again for a son. Attempting to keep her mother from becoming attached to baby Hua, Chu Ju's grandmother appoints her the baby's caregiver. Chu Ju can't bear the thought of giving up Hua to an orphanage, and decides that if there can only be one girl in the family, then she should leave. She runs away from home, and sets her hand to various things, including a stint with a fishing family, tending silk worms, and ends up staying with an elderly farm woman. Not as nearly depressing as it sounds--Gloria Whelan's got a deft touch. It's more about Chu Ju's own growth and the juxtaposition of tradition and innovation in rural China than an adventure novel, but is a fairly quick read for all that. Engaging, but not quite as good as Homeless Bird (also by Whelan), about a young girl entering into an arranged marriage in India.