In Stacey Lee's Outrun the Moon, 15-year-old Mercy Wong is an Asian-American girl living in San Francisco during the early 1900s. Though she resides in impoverished Chinatown, her social circle at school is made up of the daughters of San Francisco's rich and famous, an elite crowd she tries to fit in with, masquerading as a Chinese heiress. But Mercy's world is turned completely upside down by the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. With her city and her personal life in shambles, this disaster unearths the city's sociopolitical issues, which Mercy must carefully navigate as a Chinese-American girl caught between two very different worlds.