Pre-Owned Chasing Secrets (Hardcover) by Gennifer Choldenko

from ChristianR

Not nearly as good as her other books. In this one, Lizzie lives in San Francisco and enjoys helping her doctor father with his patients. It's 1900, and Chinatown is under quarantine because of fears of the plague. But neither her father nor her uncle, who owns a large newspaper, believes the pla...

from lillibrary

Listened to the audiobook and after a bit of a slow start, the pace picked up and I found the story quite engaging. Great for fans of historical fiction, the author gives a well-rounded view of San Francisco in the early 1900s, from the very rich to the poor, as well as the imposing societal rest...

from ewyatt

Lizzie chafes at some of the constraints and expectations of being a high-society girl in 1900 California. When her family's driver and cook, Jing doesn't come home and their is a quarantine called in Chinatown, Lizzie is desperate to track him down and get him back. His son, Noah, has been stash...

from jmoncton

This is a good middle grade historic fiction novel - set in San Francisco during the 1900s. The story is pretty good, but I loved the setting. Much of the story deals with the relationship between the upper middle class gentry of San Francisco and the poorer working class, who were typically Iris...

from jothebookgirl

I read this book in one sitting as I sat at Idol's tires for an hour getting new tires that turned into five hours.This is my favorite genre, Historical Fiction. San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. An exciting time to be alive for lots of people . . . but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, st...