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  • Age Range: 10 - 12 years
  • Grade Level: 5 - 7
  • Lexile Measure: 740L (What's this?)
  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Clarion Books (April 2, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0547848013
  • ISBN-13: 978-0547848013
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsFascinating and Beautifully Written
By Kelly VINE VOICE on April 4, 2013
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This is an engrossing tale about an Uyghur girl living in East Turkestan [now part of China]. I knew nothing of these people or what they face under Han Chinese rule, and I found this book absolutely fascinating. It is quite educational, but also completely entertaining because you see it all through the lens of the main character's life and struggles.

The story is beautifully written, so poignant that I cried in parts. The author is a masterful story teller, bringing you fully into the scene and into the heart and mind of the heroine. I read the whole book in 24 hours because I literally could not put it down.

If you've ever wondered who it is that works in all those Chinese factories making all the cheap plastic garbage that we buy here in the West, this book will answer that question for you. I wanted so badly for the heroine to break free and to have a happy ending. I won't reveal whether that happened or not, I will only say that this is an amazing book that has forever changed the way I look at the world.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAll of Her Eggs
By FredTownWard VINE VOICE on April 4, 2013
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Young Uighur girl Mehrigul has a host of problems. Her father is an alcoholic and a compulsive gambler who drinks or gambles away most of the family's meager farm earnings, her mother is an enabler who spends most of her time withdrawn into her own little pity party of a world, her grandfather is nearly blind, which has limited his basket weaving contributions to the family income, her only brother has been forced to flee after protesting against the oppressive Chinese government, and her baby sister is too young to be of much help, so most of the burden has fallen squarely upon her 14-year-old shoulders, forcing her to drop out of school, which makes her eligible to be forcibly sent off to work in a factory in the south of China.

(With tens if not hundreds of millions of poor rural Chinese who'd kill to get such jobs, you may well wonder why the Chinese government would be forcing female minorities to cut ahead of them in line. The reason appears to be a deliberate policy to reduce Uighur numbers. The supposed-to-be-at-least-16-but-often-younger girls who go off to factory jobs rarely return home to Xinjiang/East Turkestan to marry Uighur boys and produce more Uighur babies. Some of them even marry Chinese men, thus helping to solve the gender imbalance produced by the one-child-policy, which doesn't apply to members of minorities like the Uighur.)

But then, a ray of hope unexpectedly appears.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Window Into the Uyghur Culture
By C. Wong VINE VOICE on March 1, 2013
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The Vine Basket by Josanne LaValley is definitely worthy of five stars. It is beautifully written and gives you an inside look into what it is like to be a Uyghur (pronounced as Wee ghur) girl. They are a Turkish ethnic group but live mostly in an area now considered as a part of China. My husband and I think he is descended from this group so I have a special interest in this culture.

The star of this little book is Mehigul, a little girl who is forced to stop her education by her father. Her brother has run off to join a political movement. Her father who is a compulsive drinker and gambler thinks that she should do her older brother's work. Her mother is afraid to speak up against the father and lets her husband dictate what Mehigul has to do. The father's poor opinion of Mehigul makes her think that she is worthless.

But Mehigul's grandfather, Chong Ata, the most respected member of the family notices that Mehigul is learning his talent and skills at basket weaving. She watches him weave and picks it up by herself. What is more is that she has a great spark of creativity. It is this creativity that changes her life. Even though the customs of this culture are very different, the lessons are the same. Parents must learn how to respect their children.

I really enjoyed this little book. I learned about the foods that they ate, the way that the Uyghur decorate their mud houses with beautiful floral clothes, the hard lives demanded in order to keep their children fed and the sand out of their faces. But most important I learned about ways that children can find to escape forced child labor, get the education that they need and get the respect that they badly need from their parents.

I highly recommend this book for middle grade children and above.
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3.0 out of 5 starsChina Apparently Sucks
By Darian Burns on April 27, 2013
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"The Vine Basket" is about a young girl called Mehrigul who would like attend school in her tiny community in China. She is part of the Uyghur ethnic group, but since her brother Memet has run off, she has had to stay home and help with the family farm. If Mehrigul does not go back to school before long, the district authority can send her off to labor in factories. There is a small opportunity of hope-- an American lady has bought one of Mehrigul's vine baskets for the large amount of 100 yuan and has said she will return in three weeks to purchase more. Mehrigul contends with a number of impediments to making more baskets, including her pop's drinking and gambling, as well as out-and-out destruction of her attempts, but perseveres.

"The Vine Basket" would be good for many young readers in America because they are woefully uninformed of the difficulties faced by their equals in other nations, and any book that shows them is one that should be read. It is difficult for us to appreciate how devalued females in other societies can be, but Mehrigul's frustrated efforts bring this home. The story has a few minor issues with redundancy and could have been shorter which would have made the plot and action move more swiftly. However, the book is well worth a read, and if I were still teaching Middle School, it would be on my list.
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