Living in the shadow of the fruitless Mountain,Minli and her parents spend their days working in the rice fields,barely growing enough to
feed themselves.Every night,minli's father tells her stories about the jade dragon that keeps the mountain bare,the greedy and mean magistrate tiger,and the old man of the moon who holds everyone's destiny.determined to change her family's fortune,minli sets out to find the old man of the moon,urged on by a talking goldfish who gives her clues to complete her journey.along the way she makes new friends including a flightless dragon and an orphan and proves her resourcefulness when she tricks a group of greedy monkeys and gets help from a king.minli's determination to help her family,as well as the grief her parents feel at her absence,is compelling andthoroughly human.
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