Showing posts with label Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Show all posts

Monday, June 10, 2013

Book #34

A young girl named Minli lives with her Ma and Ba in a poor village at the bottom of Fruitless Mountain.  Ma thinks their family has poor fortune.  They work all day in the rice fields and come home to a tiny house to eat a bowl of rice.  Ba tells stories and Ma frowns.  One day Minli buys a gold fish and everything changes. 

Minli begins an adventure to change her fortune.  Along the way she makes a friend, listens to stories, meets interesting people, learns the true meaning of happiness, understands what fortune is, and reunites a family.  Her parents learn to trust Minli, and they also discover that they had fortune all along. 

The kids and I read "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin as part of our kid summer book club.  We had a great discussion--each of the kids asking questions or sharing their favorite part of the book.  There was a lot of thinking involved.  After the discussion we played a game.  I was lucky to find this book.  We all enjoyed it and learned a lot.