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.
- ISBN: 9781563974137
- Author: Russell, Ching Yeung
- Published: 1995 , Boyds Mills Press
- Themes: Culture, Death, Dreams, Family, making decisions, Poverty, Problem solving, social condition, traditions
- Descriptors: Asia, China, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Primary (ages 6-9)
- No. of pages: 192