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Chasing Secrets

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    About Chasing Secrets

    Newbery Honor–winning 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 Barstow’s snobby school for girls. Lizzie’s 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 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 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.


    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

    About Chasing Secrets

    Newbery Honor–winning 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 Barstow’s snobby school for girls. Lizzie’s 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 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 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.


    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

    About Chasing Secrets

    Newbery Honor–winning 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 Barstow’s snobby school for girls. Lizzie’s 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 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 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.

    Includes a Note Read by the Author.

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    About Gennifer Choldenko

    Gennifer Choldenko was the youngest in a family of four kids, where her nickname was “Snot-Nose.” Her quirky sense of humor made its debut at the dinner table when Gennifer was a very little kid. She is the author of seven… More about Gennifer Choldenko

    About Gennifer Choldenko

    Gennifer Choldenko was the youngest in a family of four kids, where her nickname was “Snot-Nose.” Her quirky sense of humor made its debut at the dinner table when Gennifer was a very little kid. She is the author of seven… More about Gennifer Choldenko

    About Gennifer Choldenko

    Gennifer Choldenko was the youngest in a family of four kids, where her nickname was “Snot-Nose.” Her quirky sense of humor made its debut at the dinner table when Gennifer was a very little kid. She is the author of seven… More about Gennifer Choldenko

    Product Details

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books | Children’s Picture Books

    Paperback | $7.99
    Published by Yearling
    Jul 19, 2016 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 7-5/8 | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9780385742542

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books | Children’s Picture Books

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Wendy Lamb Books
    Aug 04, 2015 | 288 Pages | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9780307975775

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Historical Books | Audiobooks | Children’s Picture Books

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Listening Library (Audio)
    Aug 04, 2015 | 423 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) | ISBN 9781101916346

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    “The plot is enriched by winning characters, meaningful friendships, a taut atmosphere, and secrets multiplying as fast as the story’s rats.” —Booklist starred review 

    “Not only will this novel hold a proud spot on the deadly disease shelf with Jim Murphy’s An American Plague and Laurie Halse Anderson’s Fever 1793, it’s a vivid picture of 20th-century San Francisco and a stirring story of a lonely, funny girl trying to be her “best true self.” —Shelf Awareness starred review

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