Where the Mountain Meets the Moon was written and illustrated by Grace Lin. It was published in 2009 and has won a Newberry Honor award. You can get this book from Barnes and Noble. It is a book based on stories.Minli has lived in the Valley of Fruitless Mountain all her life with barely enough for her family and her. They slave all day in the unyielding rice paddies, coming home tired and hungry. The only enjoyable part of Minli's life were the stories Ba told at dinner. Ma was never happy with these stories, for they were all about changing someone's fortune, or something of the sort. As a result, she always sighed, for she was never satisfied with their meager belongings and always wanted more. Minli, sensing her mother's discontent, left home in search of the Old Man of the Moon, the man in Ba's stories that could change someone's fortune. Along the way, Minli meets some interesting characters with interesting results.
Interesting results? That sounds intriguing. An award winning book with "interesting" results sounds like a recipe for a good read. But lining in the Fruitless Valley does not sound attractive. I hope the change of fortune includes a "fruitful life"!
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