Larger	Children of River Author: Linda Crew
	Book Information Publisher: Laurel Leaf Book Type: Paperback Rating: 11 ISBN-13: 9780440210221 - ISBN-10: 0440210224 Pages: 224 Reading Level: Young Adult Book Reviews

Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.

Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian girl" at home. A good Cambodian girl never dates; she waits for her family to arrange her marriage to a Cambodian boy. Yet Sundara and Jonathan, an extraordinary American boy, are powerfully drawn to each other. Haunted by grief for her lost family and for the life she left behind, Sundara longs to be with him. At the same time she wonders, Are her hope for happiness and a new life in America disloyal to her past and her people?