Month: December 2024
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (2010)
Minli is a young girl who lives near Fruitless Mountain with her parents. Her mother wishes the family had more money, while her father loves to tell stories, including ones about the Old Man of the Moon. Minli decides to leave her village to find the Old Man and ask him how to change her family’s fortune, and has adventures along the way. The book is interspersed with short folk tales that are related to each other and eventually with the main narrative. A fun book that straddles the line between fantasy and mythology.