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novel by Linda Crew

For the unrelated Philippine film, see Children of the River (film).

Children of the River is a young adult novel by Linda Crew published in It follows a young girl who moves to the United States to escape from the war in Cambodia.

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She becomes friends with an American boy, Jonathan McKinnon.

Plot

Sundara Sovann is a 12 year old Cambodian girl growing up in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. Sundara's is friends with a charming and smart boy named Chamroeun.

Sundara falls in love with Chamroeun, but he goes to fight in the war as a soldier. Sundara flees from Cambodia with her aunt, Soka, her grandma, and her uncle, Naro, to escape from the Khmer Rouge.

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She leaves her remaining family behind in Cambodia, which she regrets later in the novel. Sundara's aunt Soka's newborn baby dies while they're traveling on a small, very cramped ship, which devastates Sundara.

Sundara eventually makes it to America, where she seems to underst