When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan's mother is encouraged to sell her young daughter into domestic service. Lu Si-yan is just eleven when sold by her uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother. In this powerful and compelling novel Sally Grindley portrays the life of a young girl in China, a young girl whose life is said to be like 'spilled water'. With a brilliant first-person narrative and a powerful description of time and place, this novel is gripping, heart-wrenching and utterly mesmerising
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Pascal's life is like any other boy's as he worries about his English classes and his football skills - until the day rebels come to his village and everything changes • On the run with friends, Pascal finds himself at the mercy of some tough events. But it is not until he ends up working in a cocoa plantation that he realises he must endeavour to find his family and to set himself free of his enslavement • Armed only with his determination, and supported by his friend, Kojo, Pascal has a difficult battle ahead of him
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"We hadn't always lived on an island . . . why would anyone dream of such a thing if they had a house with its own path and a gate at the end of it?" • When Suresh and Sandeep run away from home to escape their abusive and bullying father, they do so with the hope that they are going to find something better • However, soon Sandeep and Suresh find themselves working to collect rubbish (broken glass) in the big city - and their new home is a traffic island in the middle of a busy road • Is this their future forever, or can the brothers change their fates to something much more hopeful?
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