Ruby Lost and Found

With three starred reviews, this contemporary middle grade maps one girls quest to visit her late Ye-Yes favorite spots in San Franciscos Chinatown and her fight against gentrification with a new friend. Thanks to her ye-yes epic scavenger hunts, Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But when he dies, she feels lost. It seems like everyone, from her best friends to her older sister, is abandoning herand after Ruby gets caught skipping lunch to avoid sitting alone, shes staring down a summer spent at her nai-nais senior center. When a new boy from Rubys class, 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. 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.