For fans of Kelly Yang and Rebecca Stead this touching middle grade novel maps one girl's
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-Ye's 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
everyone-from her best friends to her older sister-is 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-Nai's friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby's grade
Liam Yeung starts showing up too Ruby's 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 that's being priced out of the
neighborhood. And alongside Nai-Nai who is keeping a secret that threatens to change
everything Ruby retraces Ye-Ye's scavenger hunt maps in an attempt to find a way out of her
grief-and maybe even find herself.
