Gennifer Choldenko
Fiction C435c
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.
(from publisher)
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