Red Thread Sisters
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
When a girl is adopted from a Chinese orphanage, everything she knew about family, best friends, and sisterhood must change.
Wen has spent the first eleven years of her life at an orphanage in rural China, and the only person she would call family is her best friend, Shu Ling. When Wen is adopted by an American couple, she struggles to adjust to every part of her new life: having access to all the food and clothes she could want, going to school, being someone's daughter. But the hardest part of all is knowing that Shu Ling remains back at the orphanage, alone. Wen knows that her best friend deserves a family and a future, too. But finding a home for Shu Ling isn't easy, and time is running out . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The joy 11-year-old Zhang Wen feels over getting a family of her own through international adoption is dampened by her knowledge that her best friend, Shu Ling, will be left behind in a Chinese orphanage. After arriving in Massachusetts, Wen can't stop worrying about Shu Ling, who has been deemed "unadoptable" due to her age and misshapen leg. Wen vows to find a home for her friend, but also fears being sent back to China for not being a "good enough" daughter. This quiet, intimate novel focuses on Wen's difficult emotional journey, as she builds trust with her American family and tries to find a way to save her friend. Writing from personal experience as the mother of two adopted daughters, Peacock (who explored similar territory for younger readers in the picture book Mommy Far, Mommy Near) offers insight into the struggles of Asian children both awaiting adoption and assimilating into a new culture. Wen's selflessness and determination are poignant but not overly sentimental, and the story's harsh truths about children in need are sensitively expressed. Ages 8 12.
