Chasing Secrets
Chasing Secrets
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Chasing Secrets

Written by Gennifer Choldenko
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9 - 12
Reading age
288
Page count
186
Words per page
540L
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Jul 19, 2016
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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) AwardNominated for: Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice AwardsTennessee Volunteer State Book Award (Middle School division)Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) Readers AwardCalifornia Library Association’s Beatty Award, Eureka List

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1900-1949historySan Franciscodiseases, illnesses, injuries, and disabilitiestechnologyCaliforniaplaces and regionsfriendship20th centuryculturehealth and daily livingmulticulturalprejudice and racismfather-daughter relationshipsChinese culture

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780385742542
    Publication Date
    July 19, 2016
    Publisher
    Yearling Books
    Page Count
    288
    Words Per Page
    186
    Reading Age
    9 - 12 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2014040329
    Lexile® Level
    540L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~N
    ATOS® Book Level
    3.7
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    7
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    175458
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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