{"id":14945,"date":"2022-04-23T18:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T22:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=14945"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:22:39","slug":"judy-i-lin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/judy-i-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy I. Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Judy I. Lin was born in Taiwan and immigrated to Canada with her family when she was a child. She now lives on the Canadian prairies and works as an occupational therapist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

City of Echoes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Series: Avatar Legends ; bk. 1
Amulet Books, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

There is no war outside of these walls.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what the citizens of Ba Sing Se are told to believe, but Jin knows better. As a refugee whose parents were killed by the Fire Nation, she is haunted by her past. Now, she does her best to keep her head down in the Lower Ring, caring for her ailing grandfather and balancing school with survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her one bright spot is her best friend Susu, whose family treats Jin like one of their own, and whose bakery she helps make deliveries for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her world shatters when Susu\u2019s father gambles away the bakery and Susu is forced to take a contract in the Upper Ring to pay off the family\u2019s debt. Jin vows to help her friend\u2014no matter what it takes. A chain of events fueled by her desperate promise leads Jin to Xuan, an arrogant boy from the Middle Ring with ties to the Silver Fangs, a major player in the city\u2019s black market.
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Fiction (Young adult)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Dark Becomes Her<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rick Riordan Presents an imprint of Disney-Hyperion Publishing, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ruby Chen has always played the part of the dutiful eldest daughter: excelling in school; excelling in piano lessons; excelling at keeping her younger sister, Tina, focused on extracurriculars meant to impress college admissions officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when a ghost from the spirit world attacks Ruby in the middle of Vancouver\u2019s Chinatown neighborhood, her life is plunged into a darkness that no amount of duty can free her from. Overnight, Ruby\u2019s sister seems to change. There are strange noises coming from her bedroom at all hours; and the once sweet, funny Tina has been replaced by something dark and unnatural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Ruby races to save her sister from demonic possession, she is thrown into an ancient battle over the gateway to the underworld. On one side, a sinister traveling temple known for making dark wishes come true has returned to Chinatown after many years\u2014intent on breaking down the gateway and unleashing the wickedness within. On the other side, the guardians determined to stop this encroaching evil<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Young adult)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Magic Steeped in Poison<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2022.
Series: The Book of Tea ; 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it’s her own fault. She was the one who unknowingly brewed the poison tea that killed her\u2014the poison tea that now threatens to also take her sister, Shu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Ning hears of a competition to find the kingdom’s greatest shennong-shi\u2014masters of the ancient and magical art of tea-making\u2014she travels to the imperial city to compete. The winner will receive a favor from the princess, which may be Ning’s only chance to save her sister’s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But between the backstabbing competitors, bloody court politics, and a mysterious (and handsome) boy with a shocking secret, Ning might actually be the one in more danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2023 White Pine Award (Honour Book #2)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Young adult)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Song of the Six Realms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2024.
PS8623.I488 S66 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an apprenticeship at one of the most esteemed entertainment houses in the kingdom. She doesn\u2019t remember much from before entering the House of Flowing Water, and when her uncle is suddenly killed in a bandit attack, she is devastated to lose her last connection to a life outside of her indenture contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With no family and no patron, Xue is facing the possibility of a lifetime of servitude playing the qin for nobles that praise her talent with one breath and sneer at her lowly social status with the next. Then one night she is unexpectedly called to the garden to put on a private performance for the enigmatic Duke Meng. For a young man of nobility, he is strangely kind and awkward, and surprises Xue further with an irresistible offer: serve as a musician in residence at his manor for one year, and he\u2019ll set her free of her indenture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Duke\u2019s motives become increasingly more suspect when he and Xue barely survive an attack by a nightmarish monster, and when he whisks her away to his estate, she discovers he\u2019s not just some country noble: He\u2019s the Duke of Dreams, one of the divine rulers of the Celestial Realm. There she learns the Six Realms are on the brink of disaster, and incursions by demonic beasts are growing more frequent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Duke needs Xue\u2019s help to unlock memories from her past that could hold the answers to how to stop the impending war\u2026 but first Xue will need to survive being the target of every monster and deity in the Six Realms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Young adult)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Venom Dark and Sweet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2022.
Series: The Book of Tea ; 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A great evil has come to the kingdom of D\u00e0xi. The Banished Prince has returned to seize power, his rise to the dragon throne aided by the mass poisonings that have kept the people bound in fear and distrust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ning, a young but powerful sh\u00e9nn\u00f3ng-shi\u2014a wielder of magic using the ancient and delicate art of tea-making\u2014has escorted Princess Zhen into exile. Joining them is the princess’ loyal bodyguard, Ruyi, and Ning’s newly healed sister, Shu. Together the four young women travel throughout the kingdom in search of allies to help oust the invaders and take back Zhen’s rightful throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the golden serpent still haunts Ning’s nightmares with visions of war and bloodshed. An evil far more ancient than the petty conflicts of men has awoken, and all the magic in the land may not be enough to stop it from consuming the world\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Judy I. Lin personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Amulet Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Disney Publishing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Feiwel and Friends<\/a>, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author Profile by Sarah Raughley in Quill & Quire<\/a> website, posted 9 March 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judy I. Lin was born in Taiwan and immigrated to Canada with her family when she was a child. She now lives on the Canadian prairies and works as an occupational therapist. Fiction (Juvenile) City of Echoes Series: Avatar Legends … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14945","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14945"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20898,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14945\/revisions\/20898"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}