Mercy Wong is a teenage girl living in Chinatown in the year 1906. Her education in Chinatown was not enough for her smarts, so she sets off to get an education at the prestigious school for wealthy white girls, Saint Clare's. Being Chinese in San Francisco at that time was hard enough, but being Chinese in a school of girls unlike her is even harder. Teased, mocked, and bullied by room mates for being Chinese, Mercy struggles to find her place in this strange school. Disaster strikes when the infamous 1906 Earthquake hits, and Mercy has to work together with her classmates to help others and stay alive.
This action packed story from the past will move you while keeping you on "the edge of your seat." It educates you about the shocking event from the historical point of view, but more importantly, the human point of view. Stacy Lee poignantly describes the lives of people affected by the earthquake. It is a story about how love, courage, bravery, and hope triumph.

Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee
​Grades 6th, 7th, 8th
Tags:​ Friendship, Historical Fiction
Review by Skye S.

Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of Britain’s bestselling magazine, the Penny Dreadful. Her scary stories, concealed under the pen name Montgomery Finch, are gripping the people. One day she receives a letter from the governor of the Bedlam madhouse requesting Finch’s help to investigate the asylum’s strange goings-on. Every night at precisely twelve minutes to midnight, the inmates all begin feverishly writing-incoherent ramblings that Penelope quickly realizes are frightening visions of the century to come. In the first book, Penelope is drawn into a thrilling mystery more terrifying than anything she could ever imagine!

-Lulu G.

The war that saved my life is about a girl and  her little brother. They run away from their evil evil mom who slaps them and beats them. She doesn’t let the girl named Ada out of the house because she has a clubfoot apparently it’s her fault. They run away and meet this very nice lady named Susan.
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-Nora L.

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