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• Title:Girls on the line / Jennie Liu.
  
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• Author/Creator:Liu, Jennie, 1971- author.
  
• Published/Created:Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Lab, [2018]
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PZ7.1.L5846 Gir 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Missing persons--Juvenile fiction.
  Factories--Juvenile fiction.
  Human trafficking--Juvenile fiction.
  Pregnancy--Juvenile fiction.
  Teenage pregnancy--Juvenile fiction.
  Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
  Missing persons--Fiction.
  Factories--Fiction.
  Pregnancy--Fiction.
  Orphans--Fiction.
  China--Juvenile fiction.
  China--Fiction.
  
• Description:226 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:Told in two voices, Luli and Yun, raised in an orphanage to age sixteen, work together in a factory until Yun, pregnant, disappears and Luli must confront the dangers of the outside world to find her. Includes facts about China's One-Child Policy and its effects.
  Gujiao, China, 2009. Luli has aged out of the orphanage, and her friend Yun helps her get work at a factory. Yun has new clothes, a cell phone, and a boyfriend. But word is Yung is a bride trafficker, romancing young women, kidnapping them, and selling them to bachelors in the countryside. When Yun discovers she's pregnant, she is fired from her job ... and disappears. Is there any way Luli can help her friend? -- adapted from jacket.
  
• ISBN:9781512459388 (hardcover)
  1512459380 (hardcover)
  9781728445977 (paperback)
  1728445973 (paperback)
  9781541523760 (electronic book ; PDF)