Ruby lost and found - christina li

Perfect for fans of Kelly Yang and Rebecca Stead, this touching middle grade novel maps one girls quest to remember her grandfather through his scavenger hunts; reconnect with her family; and fight for her community in her rapidly changing hometown.

Thanks to her Ye-Yes 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-Nais friends for company.

When a new boy from Rubys grade, 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.

And 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 grief--and maybe even find herself.