Paper daughter

Title
Paper daughter

Personal Author EPSB
Jeanette, Ingold

Summary
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.

Year Published
2013,
 
2010

Physical Description
218 pages ; 21 cm

Note
Includes a guide for book group discussions and classroom use and a list of classroom projects.

Grade Interest level
7-10

Subject
Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
 
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.
 
Journalism -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Seattle (Wash.) -- Fiction.

Summary
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.

ISBN
9780544104846

Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013]
 
©2010


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Edmonton Christian HighFIC INGBook30905000044887Fiction