Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- 288
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- Newbery Honor
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
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Our view
Chinese folktales are woven into a young girl’s quest in “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon”, a luminous, warm-hearted fantasy. Minli sets out from her poor mountain village to turn her family’s luck around, and the tales her father told her help her along the way. Some readers share it aloud as a family, and others single out Minli’s friendship with a dragon. Grace Lin illustrated it herself, and it suits readers of any age.
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About the book
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a fantasy-adventure children's novel inspired by Chinese folklore. It was written and illustrated by Grace Lin and published in 2009. The novel received a 2010 Newbery Honor and the 2010 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature. It has been translated into Chinese, French, Hebrew, Romanian, Korean and Slovene.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.5 across 91 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 38% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.9 | 15 | 17% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 76 | 84% |
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How long is Where the Mountain Meets the Moon?
It has 288 pages — shorter than 94% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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