Duan Qingqing 
Glutinous Rice’s Quest for the Tang [EPUB ebook] 

"This is a fantasy novel about a smart and adorable little girl named Nuomi and a magical creature named Jiu’er from space, who travel through time and space together, going back thousands of years to meet the great ancient poets. They listen to them recite poetry, discuss verses with them, make friends with them, understand their personalities and destinies, and experience the creative process of those well-known classic poems. During the journey, the great ancient poets appear one after another before the readers, their voices and smiles, their joys and sorrows, their free and unrestrained thoughts and talents, all seem within reach. The distant time and space lose their distance in the vivid writing.Nuomi is a fourth-grade elementary school student. Although she made it to the finals of the Feihualing Contest through several rounds of selection with Magellan, she wants to withdraw because she no longer wants to recite those difficult ancient poems. This is because she didn’t make it to the finals as the top candidate in the selection contest. She lost to Magellan. She hates to lose.When Nuomi returned home, she locked herself in her room and cried. At this time, her pet cat, Jiu’er, was able to speak. It invited Nuomi to a place where she could appreciate the beauty of ancient poetry and fall in love with it. The condition was that Nuomi could not tell her parents and her brother, Tuanzi, about Jiu’er’s ability to speak."