Outrun the moon
Title
:
Outrun the moon
Personal Author EPSB
:
Stacey Lee
Summary
:
Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break out of poverty in Chinatown. She gains admission to a prestigious finishing school through cunning and bribery and soon discovers that getting in was easy: carving a niche among the spoiled heiresses proves more difficult. When the earthquake strikes, Mercy and her classmates are forced to a survivor encampment where her quick-witted leadership rallies them to help in the tragedy's aftermath.
Year Published
:
2016-2017
Physical Description
:
391, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
Subject
:
Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
Earthquakes -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Fiction.
Summary
:
Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break out of poverty in Chinatown. She gains admission to a prestigious finishing school through cunning and bribery and soon discovers that getting in was easy: carving a niche among the spoiled heiresses proves more difficult. When the earthquake strikes, Mercy and her classmates are forced to a survivor encampment where her quick-witted leadership rallies them to help in the tragedy's aftermath.
ISBN
:
9780147516916
9780399175411
Publisher
:
New York, New York : Speak, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2016.
©2016
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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| D.S. MacKenzie | FIC LEE | Book | 30522000362183 | Due 10/10/24 |