Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book)

by Grace Lin

Even fates written in the Book of Fortune can be changed. How can anything be impossible?”

Boys, she thought to herself, always thinking they know everything.

“She’s my friend,” the boy said simply. “That’s who she is and that’s enough for me.”

“Everything’s alive—the ground you’re walking on, the bark of those trees. We were always alive, even before we were lions and were just raw stone. However, carving us did give us a bit more personality.”

She was at last able to see that her daughter’s laughter and love could not be improved by having the finest clothes or jewels, that joy had been in her home like a gift waiting to be opened. The woman wept tears for which there was no comfort. For all the time that she had been longing for treasures, she had already had the one most precious.

Fortune was not a house full of gold and jade, but something much more. Something she already had and did not need to change.

For even in the misty light, the goldfish man could see her smiling a secret smile up to the sky to where the mountain meets the moon.