Book 1999
Child bride
3 readers
- Publisher
- Boyds Mills Press
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Arranged marriage
- Child marriage
- Fiction
- Grandmothers
- Marriage customs and rites
- Social life and customs
- Juvenile fiction
In the 1940's in southeastern China, eleven-year-old Ying will do whatever it takes to avoid the marriage arranged for her by a grandmother she barely knows because it would take her away from the grandmother who is raising her.