Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.

Recommended Texts for Pairing

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

• a 2010 Newbery Honor children’s book that includes the motif of traditional folktales; connects to the theme of The Perception and Importance of Stories
• Main character Minli seeks to change her family’s fortune on a quest to the Old Man of the Moon.
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon on SuperSummary

Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh

• a middle grade novel featuring a female protagonist, Junie Kim, who learns from her grandparents’ stories of life during the Korean War
• connects to the themes of The Perception and Importance of Stories and The Complexity of Three-Dimensional Personalities

Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar

• a middle grade novel featuring 12-year-old Carol, whose growing fascination with her grandfather’s stories as he struggles with dementia leads to realizations about family
• connects to the themes of The Perception and Importance of Stories and The Complexity of Three-Dimensional Personalities