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Water ghost

Ching Yeung Russell

1995192 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995Boyds Mills Press · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9781563974137
  • 2002Highlights Press, c/o Highlights for Children, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781590780459

In China in the 1940s, ten-year-old Ying sells her handmade bamboo chicken fences to make money to attend a school camping trip, but no one understands why she instead uses her earnings to buy a dead hen from the grandmother of a drowned classmate.

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