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Rice without Rain

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By Minfong Ho
Publisher HarperCollins
Rice without Rain
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Another dry season another silent harvest!The parched yellow fields outside the village where seventeenyearold Jinda lives are her familys only source of income. How can the rainstarved crop produce enough rice to feed them, much less pay the rent? Perhaps the recently arrived young strangers from the city are right about the need for centuriesold traditions to change. At least when she listens to their talk, she feels the stirrings of hope...Hesitantly, Jinga grows to trust the outsiders. There is Sri, who brings with her lifesaving medicines and knowledge of how to use them. And there is Ned, who talks of taking charge of ones own destiny, and fighting those who would stand in the way. It is almost too late when Jinda realizes that her trust is misplaced that to Sri and Ned their cause is more important than the lives it would affect. Against a vividly evoked backdrop of rural and urban Thailand, Jinda heroically faces the challenges of holding on to who she is as the world around her revolves in what seems to be neverending change.

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51461 words51,461 words
256 pages256 pages
Lexile 840LLexile 840L
Grade 7 to 99Grade 7 to 99
Published 1990Published 1990

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Book ISBN:

0688063551

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