Outrun the Moon, which has been awarded the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, is an engaging historical novel told from diverse perspectives, as well as a powerful testament to individual activism, self-determination and sheer grit. In the process, she challenges long-held assumptions and stereotypes that today’s readers will relate to all too well. After the Great Earthquake of 1906 strikes San Francisco, Mercy struggles to make sense of the enormity of the catastrophe and how to assist the community amidst such devastation. With a fortune-teller mother and a father who works 16-hour days in a laundromat, even Mercy knew that life at St. Clare’s School for Girls, a place that’s off-limits to all but the wealthiest of white girls. Plucky Mercy digs in her heels and uses her cunning wit to gain admittance into St.
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