Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Exquisite Minli, a young girl, toils relentlessly every day, working the unforgiving, barren land, and making dinner for her family. Her family just barely has enough rice, and her mother is always sighing with discontent. Her father fills Minli with tales, and one day Minli goes on an epic quest to......more

had me at my favorite person's childhood favorite! this is everything middle grade should be: a fun, unique adventure with a lengthy and memorable cast of characters and interesting lessons that aren't annoying or boring. plus this one had beautiful illustrations and a theme of the power of stories n......more

When an author wants to write their first fantasy novel for children, they'll sometimes fall back on the books they themselves loved as kids. If they were Alice in Wonderland fans they might go the route of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. If they were partial to The Wizard of Oz they could do as Salman Rush......more

My five stars might be misleading. I don't think I would have enjoyed this half as much reading it to myself as I did reading it aloud slowly over many nights with an utterly enchanted seven-year-old hanging on every word. It's a magical quest story woven of Chinese folk tales and the author's own i......more

This... this is one of the most beautiful middle grade books I have ever read. Minli lives in the Valley of the Fruitless Mountain with her very poor parents. Her father tells her stories about the Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon, filling her head with ideas of how they could possibly change......more