Children of the River

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?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
Published: 08/01/1991
ISBN: 9780440210221
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.20w x 0.70d
Award: Black-Eyed Susan Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/13/1991

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 606 / Children of the River
Reading Level: 4.3 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 8