The Lost Ryu

Kohei Fujiwara has never seen a big ryu in real life. Those dragons all disappeared from Japan after World War II, and twenty years later, theyve become the stuff of legend. Their smaller cousins, who can fit in your palm, are all that remain. And Kohei loves his ryu, Yuharu, but Kohei has a memory of the big ryu. He knows thats impossible, but still, its there, in his mind. In it, he can see his grandpa Ojiisan gazing up at the big ryu with what looks to Kohei like total and absolute wonder. When Kohei was little, he dreamed hed go on a grand quest to bring the big ryu 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 ryu now, before its too late. With the help of Isolde, his new half-Jewish, half-Japanese neighbor; and Isoldes Yiddish-speaking dragon, Cheshire; he thinks he can do it. Maybe. He doesnt have a choice. In The Lost Ryu, debut author Emi Watanabe Cohen gives us a story of multigenerational pain, magic, and the lengths to which well go to protect the people we love.