The Lost Ryu

Kohei Fujiwara has never seen a big ryū in real life. Those dragons all disappeared from Japan after World War II, and twenty years later, they've become the stuff of legend. Their smaller cousins, who can fit in your palm, are all that remain. And Kohei loves his ryū, Yuharu, but.

.Kohei has a memory of the big ryū. He knows that's impossible, but still, it's there, in his mind. In it, he can see his grandpa - Ojiisan - gazing up at the big ryū with what looks to Kohei like total and absolute wonder. When Kohei was little, he dreamed he'd go on a grand quest to bring the big ryū back, to get Ojiisan to smile again.

But now, Ojiisan is really, really sick. And Kohei is running out of time.

Kohei needs to find the big ryū now, before it's too late. With the help of Isolde, his new half-Jewish, half-Japanese neighbor; and Isolde's Yiddish-speaking dragon, Cheshire; he thinks he can do it. Maybe. He doesn't have a choice.

In The Lost Ryū, debut author Emi Watanabe Cohen gives us a story of multigenerational pain, magic, and the lengths to which we'll go to protect the people we love.

Author: Emi Watanabe Cohen
Publisher: Levine Querido
Published: 06/07/2022
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781646141326
Audience: Ages 9-12

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 04/27/2022
Booklist 06/01/2022 pg. 84
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2022
School Library Journal 07/01/2022 pg. 56