Chasing Secrets

Newbery Honorûwinning author Gennifer Choldenko deftly combines humor, tragedy, fascinating historical detail, and a medical mystery in this exuberant new novel. San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people . . . but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss BarstowÆs snobby school for girls. LizzieÆs secret passion is science, an unsuitable subject for finishing-school girls. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father. On those visits to his patients, she discovers a hidden dark side of the cityùa side thatÆs full of secrets, rats, and rumors of the plague. The newspapers, her powerful uncle, and her beloved papa all deny that the plague has reached San Francisco. So why is the heart of the city under quarantine? Why are angry mobs trying to burn Chinatown to the ground? Why is Noah, the Chinese cookÆs son, suddenly making Lizzie question everything she has known to be true? Ignoring the rules of race and class, Lizzie and Noah must put the pieces together in a heart-stopping race to save the people they love. Winner of a Los Angeles Public Library FOCAL (Friends of Children and Literature) Award Nominated for: Pennsylvania Young ReaderÆs Choice Awards Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award (Middle School division) Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) Readers Award California Library AssociationÆs Beatty Award, Eureka List

• | Author: Gennifer Choldenko
• | Publisher: Yearling
• | Publication Date: Jul 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Juvenile Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0385742541
• | ISBN-13: 9780385742542