Paper daughter

By Jeanette Ingold

Subjects: Self-acceptance, Chinese Americans, Grief, Self-discovery, Journalism, fiction, Identity, fiction, Ethnicity, Mystery and detective stories, Identity (Philosophical concept), Seattle (wash.), fiction, Identity, Chinese americans, fiction, Secrets, Fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Journalism

Description: When her father, a respected journalist in Seattle, is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Maggie Chen, a high school intern at her father's newspaper, searches for clues to the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, an investigation that forces her to confront her ethnicity and a family she never knew. Includes historical notes on Chinese immigration to the United States, "paper sons," and the Exclusion Era laws.