Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is an amazing example of imagery in words. The author Grace Lin uses folk stories to put to life this book. Grace Lin uses the traditional folktales to write a creative and imaginary story about a young girl. Young readers will love this story because the story h...
Genre: Realistic Fiction When the moon is missing from a small village, a young boy sets out on a magical adventure. This young boy realizes that there is something off about the town and that the people don’t even seem to care about the events that have been taking place behind their own walls....
This book was fun, funny, and it had chapters (little chapters, but chapters none-the-less), which would make this top of the list for children. Since the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award focuses on books kids will like to read, it's obvious why this one won. Also, every chapter ended with some of the ...
Short stories about two identical twin girls.The Haircuts-The girls get their hair cut and end up looking a little different when Ting sneezes while the hairdresser is trimming her bangs.The Magic Trick-Ling is trying her hand at magic. She has Ting draw a playing card from a deck of cards so tha...
When Pacy, her two sisters, and their parentsgo to Taiwan to celebrate Grandma’s seventh birthday, the girls learn a lot about their heritageGrace Lin develops wonderful characters. I love this family and I love the extended family in Taiwan as well. This book explores wonderful themes of family,...
When I was growing up, our family traveled to Oregon every year for a reunion of my father's mother's family, and as we drove through, we would always stop in Ashland to stretch our legs and sample some Lithia water. My parents and I would often walk around the Elizabethan theater, too. That left...