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Name: Water ghost
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Ching Yeung Russell

In China in the 1940s, ten-year-old Ying sells her handmade bamboo chicken fences to make money to attend a school camping trip, but no one understands why she instead uses her earnings to buy a dead hen from the grandmother of a drowned classmate.

First publish date: 1995

Authors: Ching Yeung Russell

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