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Chasing Secrets

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Newbery Honor–winning creator Gennifer Choldenko deftly combines humor, tragedy, fascinating historical detail, and a medical mystery on this exuberant new novel.

San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. An incredible time to be alive for a lot of people . . . but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss Barstow’s snobby school for girls. Lizzie’s secret passion is science, an incorrect 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 city—a side that’s 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 indignant mobs looking to burn Chinatown to the ground? Why is Noah, the Chinese cook’s son, all at once making Lizzie question the whole lot she has known to be true? Ignoring the rules of race and class, Lizzie and Noah should 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 Reader’s Choice Awards
Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award (Middle School division)
Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) Readers Award
California Library Association’s Beatty Award, Eureka List


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