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Hardback224 pages
Interest Age: 11-14
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www.sallygrindley.co.uk/Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC an imprint of A & C Black Publishers LtdSuitable for Ages
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Publication date
1st September 2006ISBN
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Synopsis
Spilled Water by Sally GrindleyWinner of the 2004 Gold Smarties Award and a number of other prestigious awards.
When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan's mother is encouraged to sell her young daughter into domestic service. Lu Si-yan is just eleven when sold by her uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother.
In this powerful and compelling novel Sally Grindley portrays the life of a young girl in China, a young girl whose life is said to be like 'spilled water'.
Reviews
'Sally Grindley excels in stories that extend a child's emotional experience' The Scotsman
About The Author
Sally was our Guest Editor for December 2010. Click here to see her book selections.
Sally began writing in 1984 while she was working for a children's book club. Since 1995 she has been writing full time and has recently won the Smarties Prize. She now has some fifty titles in print. 'Shhh' won the Children's Book Award in 1992 and was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize. 'Wake Up Dad' won the 1989 Best Books for Babies Award and 'There's a Monster In Our House Who Eats Books' was Highly Commended in the 1997 Right Start/Petit Filous award, shortlisted in the 1998 Sheffield Children's Book Award and selected by the Young Book Trust in 1998 as one of the '100 best books'.
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