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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Names: Liu, Jennie, 1971– author.

Title: Girls on the line / by Jennie Liu.

Description: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Lab, [2018] | 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.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017031554| ISBN 9781512459388 (lb) | ISBN 9781541523760 (eb pdf)

Subjects: | CYAC: Missing persons—Fiction. | Factories—Fiction. | Pregnancy—Fiction. | Orphans—Fiction. | China—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.L5846 Gir 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

 

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