{"id":596,"date":"2020-06-16T05:29:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T05:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/?page_id=596"},"modified":"2020-07-22T04:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:30:41","slug":"josanne-la-valley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/josanne-la-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Josanne La Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FACTORY GIRL<\/h3>\n

\n January 2017,\n Clarion\/HMH,\n 256 pp <\/p>\n\n

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In order to save her family\u2019s farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading conditions and contempt for her minority (Uyghur) background. Sustained by her bond with other Uyghur girls, Roshen is resolved to endure all to help her family and ultimately her people. A workplace survival story, this gritty, poignant account focuses on a courageous teen and illuminates the value\u2014and cost\u2014of freedom.<\/p><\/div>\n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n

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THE VINE BASKET<\/h3>\n

\n April 2013,\n Clarion\/HMH,\n 256 pp <\/p>\n\n

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Things aren\u2019t looking good for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul. She yearns to be in school, but she\u2019s needed on the family farm. The longer she\u2019s out of school, the more likely it is that she\u2019ll be sent off to a Chinese factory… perhaps never to return. Her only hope is an American woman who buys one of her decorative vine baskets for a staggering sum and says she will return in three weeks for more. Mehrigul must brave terrible storms, torn-up hands from working the fields, and her father\u2019s scorn to get the baskets done. The stakes are high, and time is passing. A powerful intergenerational story of a strong, creative young artist in a cruelly oppressive society.<\/p><\/div>\n\n \n\n

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SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cThe vivid and authentic sense of place, custom, and politics serves as an effective vehicle for the skillfully characterized, emotionally charged story\u2026. An absorbing read and an excellent choice for expanding global understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n \n

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