Why read Ruby Lost and Found?

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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.

Thanks to her Ye-Ye’s epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows…

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1 author picked Ruby Lost and Found as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Darcy Marks

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I absolutely adored this book. It deals with grief and pain and love, letting people in and adjusting to change while you just want everything to stay the same! This book is everything.

When Ruby gets in trouble at school, her parents decide she needs to spend the summer with her grandmother, which means days at a senior center in Chinatown and silent evenings with Nai-Nai struggling to deal with the loss of her grandfather.

But as Ruby tries to save the local bakery she loves so much, she realizes that something is wrong with Nai-Nai. Using the scavenger hunts…

From Darcy's 3 favorite reads in 2023.