Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Xiran Jay Zhao
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Xiran Jay Zhao
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Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

Author: Xiran Jay Zhao

Narrator: Eric Yang

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/22/2022


Synopsis

Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm.

Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open.

The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers.

And if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever.

About Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Iron Widow series. A first-gen Hui Chinese immigrant from small-town China to Vancouver, Canada, they were raised by the internet and made the inexplicable decision to leave their biochem degree in the dust to write books and make educational content instead. You can find them @XiranJayZhao on Twitter for memes, Instagram for cosplays and fancy outfits, TikTok for fun short videos, and YouTube for long videos about Chinese history and culture. Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor is their first middle grade novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Isa on March 26, 2022

Reseña de un ARC Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor cuenta la historia de Zack, un chico de doce años que nunca ha aceptado mucho su ascendencia y costumbres chinas porque sus compañeros de colegio siempre lo han hecho avergonzarse por ser diferente. Todo en la vida de Zack parece bastante norma......more

Goodreads review by Carl on February 20, 2021

I've beta'd an early version of this book and it is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS. Xiran is hands down one of my favourite authors, and this book in particular is so freaking important. Not only it is an extremely fun read, but it will be such a fundamental book for so many second/third gen children who strug......more

Goodreads review by Jade on August 08, 2024

6.14 on Cawpile......more

Goodreads review by Sheena on May 13, 2022

I loved Iron Widow and was pretty excited for this one. It definitely gives Percy Jackson vibes and I thought it was a standalone but based off the ending - it isn’t. I kind of wish it was a standalone because I’m getting over series but that’s my own problem. The book itself is a lot of fun and Zac......more

Goodreads review by Thibault on February 28, 2023

It’s basically a really cool mix of Chinese culture with video games and Japanese anime like Yu-Gi-Oh, Code Geass, Shaman King, … Zachary Ying’s mom gets attacked by angry spirits and put into a coma. The only way his mom can survive is if Zack goes to China with the ghost of his ancestor to close a......more