Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Awards Winner of a Los Angeles Public Library FOCAL (Friends of Children and Literature) Award 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 cook’s 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. The newspapers, her powerful uncle, and her beloved papa all deny that the plague has reached San Francisco. On those visits to his patients, she discovers a hidden dark side of the city-a side that’s full of secrets, rats, and rumors of the plague. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father.

Lizzie’s secret passion is science, an unsuitable subject for finishing-school girls. but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss Barstow’s snobby school for girls. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people. Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) Readers AwardĬalifornia Library Association’s Beatty Award, Eureka ListNewbery Honor–winning author Gennifer Choldenko deftly combines humor, tragedy, fascinating historical detail, and a medical mystery in this exuberant new novel. Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award (Middle School division) Newbery Honor–winning author Gennifer Choldenko deftly combines humor, tragedy, fascinating historical detail, and a medical mystery in this exuberant new novel.

Chasing Secrets by Gennifer Choldenko