Description
Chang lives on a houseboat on China's Li River with his parents and their cormorants, great black birds trained to dive and retrieve fish for their owners. Though he has been mute since birth, he can make sounds the birds understand...[This is] a rare a realistic story set in modern China that's accessible to readers as young as second grade.-School Library JournalAffecting.-Publishers Weekly
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
64 pages
Language
English
Published
Sep 8, 2003
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Editions
2 editions
ISBN-10
0374406596
ISBN-13
9780374406592