Paper daughter
By: Jeanette Ingold.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780152055073
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction; Chinese Americans -- Fiction; Identity -- Fiction; Journalism -- Fiction; Mystery and detective stories; Seattle (Wash.) -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction; Fiction
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. ).