Welcome to Litsy!

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.