![]() ![]() Lee’s protagonist, 15-year-old Mercy Wong, stands out in her Chinese family and community for her “bossy cheeks,” the physical manifestation of her boundless ambition and independence. ![]() As Stacey Lee shows in her gripping YA novel Outrun the Moon, this event brought a diverse but ethnically segregated city together as it tested the skills and leadership of residents young and old. history was the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, which killed more than 3000 people and destroyed four-fifths of the city. While it seems like the hurricanes, tornadoes, and heat waves are getting more potent and the 500 year floods seem to be happening every five or ten years, earlier generations experienced terrible disasters with fewer resources to respond to them. All these are natural disasters that can either tear communities apart or bring them together. ![]()
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