Cover of Child bride

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.