Lisa Yee’s debut novel, Millicent Min, Girl Genius, won the Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Her other novels for young people include Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time, So Totally Emily Ebers, Absolutely Maybe, and two books about a fourth grader, Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) and Bobby the Brave (Sometimes). In Maizy Chen’s Last Chance (Random House Books for Young Readers), Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota, but now her mom plans to visit and stay for a couple of weeks until her grandfather gets better. Then plans change, and as Maizy spends more time at the Golden Palace – the restaurant that has been in her family for generations – she makes some discoveries. The place has secrets! And the more Maizy discovers, the more questions she has. Why are her mom and her grandmother always fighting? Who are the people in the photographs on the office wall? And when she discovers that a beloved family treasure has gone missing – and a racist note – Maizy decides it’s time to find the answers. This is a novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family.
