![]() 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. About Chasing Secrets Newbery Honorwinning author Gennifer Choldenko deftly combines humor, tragedy, fascinating historical detail, and a medical mystery in this exuberant new novel. The newspapers, her powerful uncle, and her beloved papa all deny that the plague has reached San Francisco. A powerful subplot involving Lizzie’s older brother, Billy, shows that the controversy over immunization has long roots. 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. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father. Chasing Secrets - Ebook written by Gennifer Choldenko. 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. ![]() Newbery Honor–winning author Gennifer Choldenko deftly combines humor, tragedy, fascinating historical detail, and a medical mystery in this exuberant new novel. ![]()
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