# Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

**Author:** Grace Lin
**Lexile:** 810L
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 8–12
**First published:** 2009
**Page count:** 282
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9780316038638`
**ISBN-10:** `0316038636`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/where-the-mountain-meets-the-moon
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Minli sets off to find the Old Man of the Moon and change her family's fortune, meeting dragons and folklore figures along the way. Grace Lin's Newbery Honor novel weaves Chinese folktales into an adventure about family, gratitude, and what truly makes a life rich. A common grades 4-7 read.

## Themes

- family
- folklore
- adventure
- gratitude

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