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.
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Publisher's Weekly, March 2010 Booklist, March 2010 Horn Book, October 2010 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), May 2010 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2010 Library Media Connection, October 2010 Multicultural Review, October 2010 Christian Library, February 2011 Publisher's Weekly Booklist Horn Book
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