Description

For fans of Kelly Yang and Rebecca Stead, this touching middle grade novel maps one girls quest to remember her grandfather through his scavenger hunts; reconnect with her family; and fight for her community in her rapidly changing hometown. Winner of the APALA Youth Literature Award!

Thanks to her Ye-Yes epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyonefrom her best friends to her older sisteris abandoning her.

After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nais friends for company. When a new boy from Rubys grade, Liam Yeung, starts showing up too, Rubys humiliation is complete.

But Nai-Nai, her friends, and Liam all surprise Ruby. She finds herself working with Liam, who might not be as annoying as he seems, to help save a historic Chinatown bakery thats being priced out of the neighborhood. And alongside Nai-Nai, who is keeping a secret that threatens to change everything, Ruby retraces Ye-Yes scavenger hunt maps in an attempt to find a way out of her griefand maybe even find herself.

Author: Christina Li
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Published: 05/16/2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.87w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780063008939
Language: English