TFK Kid Reporter Ethan Yu read The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli and interviewed its author, Karina Yan Glaser. Read Ethan’s thoughts below.
Han Yu and Luli live in different times and places. Han Yu lives in China in 731; Luli in New York City’s Chinatown in 1931. Both face great challenges to save their families.
Han Yu is known as Tiger Boy after a tiger was seen protecting him as a baby. Han Yu is friends with magpies, a camel, and a dog. His family doesn’t know what to do with him, as he keeps failing apprenticeships. “Han Yu feels a little bit lost,” author Karina Yan Glaser tells TIME for Kids. “I think that that’s a feeling that all of us experience sometime in our lives, and I think especially young people do.” While his dad is traveling the Silk Roads, disaster strikes: A mysterious plague infects Han Yu’s family. He must embark on a perilous journey to find a cure to save them.
Luli’s family owns a building in Manhattan, but there’s still a mortgage. When business is slow at its dim sum restaurant, it’s hard for the family to make the mortgage payment. More trouble arises when thieves try to steal a precious artifact from Luli’s uncle’s shop. Later, questions abound as Luli is thrown into a car with a famous art thief. What happens to Luli? And will her family lose their building?
This book has interesting characters and two compelling stories. Readers who enjoy historical fiction and dual timelines will especially enjoy The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli.
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