Plot: This is a book by Grace Lin. It talks about a little girl and a mooncake. The little girl is Little Star and Little Star and her mom live in the night sky. They bake a mooncake together. The mom places the moon cake in the sky and tells Little Star to not eatContinue reading “A Big Mooncake for Little Star”
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Starry River of the Sky
Plot: In the almost ghost-town like village of Clear Sky, the moon has been missing and is not showing up at night! A chore-boy, named Rendi, seems to be the only person who has noticed this. Why is the moon missing? Why does Rendi’s master, Master Chao, seem to be always bickering with Widow Yan?Continue reading “Starry River of the Sky”
When the Sea Turned to Silver
Plot: This book is a sequel to Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. Pinmei’s grandmother, who is secretly Min Li, always tells the most enchanting and exciting tales to her grand daughter and the many many other villagers. But the peace is not going to be kept for long. One night, theContinue reading “When the Sea Turned to Silver”
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Plot: This novel written by Grace Lin is a Chinese folktale. It is about a girl, Minli, whose entire village is extremely poor and they have to work in fields because they had no rain and they were supposed to flood the rivers to do their work. The Jade Dragon stopped making rain. Her fourContinue reading “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon”
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