Paper Daughter

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.

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

Places: Seattle (Wash.)