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Summary: A touching novel.
Review: I loved this book. I am in 11th grade now, and I read this book when I was in middle school. It touched me then and still does today. I would recomend it to anyone especaily girls.
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Summary: An exciting core novel for 8th grade girls AND boys!!!
Review: This book was a required reading for my 8th grade English class, and although I scoffed at first because I thought the boys wouldn't like the "romance" portion of the book, in the end, it was the boys who were truly hooked. In fact, the greatest joy in finishing the book was the fact that all of my students wanted to know WHAT HAPPENED TO SUNDARA AND JONATHAN? Did they live "happily ever after"? What happened to Sundara's family? Did Mayoury come to America? I told the students that this book was fiction but they were so tuned into the main characters that they wanted to know more. Some even wanted to write to Linda Crew and ask her to write an epilogue to the story! Any book that gets 8th grade boys into reading is a MUST read! Hats off to Linda Crew!
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Summary: Hated it
Review: From the china-doll haircut of the girl on the cover, to the typical white-boy & Asian-girl relationship, the book reeked of colonialism. From the way that Cambodian values are cast as "traditional" and "conflicting" with "ordinary American life," to the way that her love for a white man is seen as becoming "more American," it is obvious that this is another text in the tradition of the Joy Luck Club: exoticize and degrade Asian cultures, all Asian women should be with white men. As an Asian American, I found it degrading and offensive. White people will probably eat it up. I read it while standing up in the bookstore and didn't bother to buy it.
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Summary: A Cambodian girl struggles to live in Cambodian and USA ways
Review: Sundara struggles to live by the Cambodian Traditional when she is living in the different Country now, the country of Freedom. One day she meets an American boy that really like her and she likes him too but according to Cambodian traditional. The girl parents are the one that will pick her husband. Sundara then struggles to overcome what she feels for the American boy, Jonathan. It is hard for her, especially when she hears the news that her beloved boyfriend died in Cambodia. Struggling and trying to forget about Jonathan there are always something that bring them together. It is their fate to be together. No matter who says no and who says yes. If it is the fate that Sundara and Jonathan shall be together. It will happen and Love is a strong bond between two people that no one can break and take away.
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Summary: This book is a MUST for all!
Review: This book is a great one for cozely sitting near a fire on a cold night! A must read!!
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Summary: Children of the River is truely a story of courage and faith
Review: Children of the River is truely a story of courage and faith. Sundara a Cambodian girl flees to America with her family in hopes of being secure and safe. Sundara soon learns that it isn't easy living in America and being respectful of her Cambodian customs. She finds herself in love with an American boy and knows that her family would never accept him because he was an American. She tries to tell her family that all that counts is what is in the heart. This story is mostly about a courageous girl and her struggles to fit in to America
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Summary: Realistic portrayal of Cambodian teen refugee¿s experience.
Review: A young adult book that helps fill a gap in literature for middle school and early high school students. Sundara fled the Khmer Rouge in her native
Cambodia when she was thirteen, and is struggling to adjust to her new life in Oregon. Sundara's story is a continuous effort to fit in with American life while honoring her Cambodian elders and culture. A young Cambodia friend of mine was moved to read this book twice, and touts it as being very realistic in its portrayal of the Cambodian teen refugee's experience. - Barbara, multiculturalism
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Summary: A Reveiw on Children Of The River
Review: This book is a classic romance and a book on the country of Cambodia. A must-read
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Summary: Children of the River
Review: This is an excellent book about a Cambodian girl named Sundara who moves to Oregon to escape the Khmer Rouge. There, she meets a boy and falls in love with him. However, according to the Cambodian custom, she is not allowed to speak to boys. This book talks about Sundara's struggles to fit in at school
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Summary: Great Classroom Potential
Review: "Children of the River" is an intriguing story about the adventure of a Cambodian refugee family and their struggle to survive and find contentment in American culture. Readers both sympathize and identify with the ups and downs of Sundara's experience. This book is definately a page turner; the high drama is entertaining, and yet it seriously portrays the plight of a teenage outsider trying to fit in.I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I hope to use it in my classroom someday. The story is fun and will maintain the intrest of young readers. From an educational stand-point, "Children of the River" contains excellent discussion possibilities. Under careful supervision and consideration the issues of race, dating, family, culture, popularity, and many other concerns that are relevant to teens can be addressed in relation to the Sundara's plot. Not only do these dicussions have the potential to provide important insights in the lives of the students; but they also motivate the students to read for a full comprehension of the literature. This book provides students with a diverse perspective on life and will hopefully expand and challenge their world view. Excellent book!!!
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