Cover of Water ghost

Book 1995

Water ghost

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Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Language
English
Published
1995
  • Death -- Fiction.
  • Family life -- China -- Fiction.
  • Schools -- Fiction.

In China in the 1940s, ten-year-old Ying sells her handmade bamboo chicken fences to make money to attend a school camping trip, but no one understands why she instead uses her earnings to buy a dead hen from the grandmother of a drowned classmate.