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Title: Children of the River by Linda Crew ISBN: 0-440-21022-4 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (78 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Children of the River
Comment: A New Life? Actual title: Children of the River
By: Linda Crew
This book is about a girl named Sundra Sovaan. She fled with her aunt and uncle, without her family, to escape the Khmer Rouge Army. They left form Cambodia to the United States and live in Oregon. She's not supposed to date boys and her parents are supposed to arrange her marriage to a nice Cambodian boy. She worries about her grades and always studies because she wants a scholarship to become a doctor. She wants to go back to Cambodia and help the sick and dying people there. She is always taking care of the household because her aunt doesn't want to do it. She always worries about money and anything going on in the family. She hasn't even ever been to a football game before. Everything changes when she meets Jonathan. Jonathan is smart, athletic, popular, rich, and most of all he befriends her. Her family says it's absolutely impossible for her to be friends with him. He's American and not Cambodian. She is torn between old traditions and the new American ways.
The beginning was a little hard to understand and to grasp, but by the second chapter you're hooked. The author does an excellent job in the middle and the end. The end kind of leaves you hanging. Overall this book is great!
If you like books if a little romance with a clash of culture and other things you will definitely love this book! Other books in comparison are A Girl Named Disaster, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and many other books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Children of the River - Letter to the author
Comment: Dear Ms. Crew:I just finished reading your book, Children of the River, and I thought it was a magnificent book. We were supposed to pick a free reading book to read in class a few minutes before class started, and I chose your book because it sounded like an interesting book to read. After reading it for a while, I could not put it down. Through reading this book I have learned how different every part of the world from the place I live. After reading about Sundara, a Cambodian girl who was forced to leave Cambodia with her aunt and uncle due to the Khmer Rouge, who then went to Oregon and started a new life, I started thinking. I agree with you when you state that when a person is in another country, they do not have to follow the old ways in which they used to live. When Sundara went to school in Oregon and she started liking Jonathan, an American boy, she should have had the right to go on a date with Jonathan if she wanted to or should have had the right to be seen with him because they were in America now, and they were not in Cambodia. In Cambodia, the parents choose whom their daughter is to marry, but in America they have the right to choose their future mate. This is an issue that is really important to someone who might be in the same situation as Sundara and it is a really good thing that you brought it up in your book. On the other hand, I disagree with children working at a young age. For example, Ravy should not have had to work on the fields, or he shouldn't have had to collect the golf balls that people hit over to their house and sold them just so his family could have money. At the age of ten, Ravy should be like other kids his age, running around outside or playing video games. When kids are at a young age, that is the point in their life in which they should be having fun and not worrying about work or bills. Even though Sundara was thirteen when she was sent over to her aunts and uncles house to tend to their newborn daughter, she should not have had all of the responsibilities for taking care of the baby because when she could not provide all of the things that the baby needed, she took the blame of the baby's death into her heart and every time she thought of it, she could not take the pain. For that reason, she started crying excessively and could not stop until the baby's spirit was out of her body. For these main points, I agree with your story and also disagree with your story. After reading this story I walked away from it thinking that I am living in California with loving parents, enough money for them to provide for us with, and basically living the good life, while children are dying of starvation in other countries and they are working just because they are not as wealthy. Therefore, I thought this book was a magnificent one because it really had an impact on my life. Thank you for your time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Christina ...
Comment: This what happens in the book. 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 her sister, and the boy she had loved ever 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 wants her family to arrange her marriage to a Cambodian boy. Yet Sundara and Jonathan, an extraordinay American boy, are powerfully drawn to each other. Haunted by grief for her lost family and for the life she had lift behind, Sundara longs to be with him. At the same time she wonders, are her hopes for happiness and a new life in America disloyal to her past and her people? Well of course Jonathan asked her to marry him two times the frist time she ran away and the second time she said yes. This book to me is very good and if you ever get the chance to read the book read it because it is very very good.
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Title: Journey of the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss, Daisy Cubias ISBN: 0142302090 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by SUZANNE FISHER STAPLES ISBN: 0679810307 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 13 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi ISBN: 0440407591 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho ISBN: 0374412294 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse ISBN: 0140363912 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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