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Name: Child bride
Author: Ching Yeung Russell

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.

First publish date: 1999

Authors: Ching Yeung Russell

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