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Paper Daughter (2010)

by Jeanette Ingold(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

015205507X (ISBN13: 9780152055073)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: “Maggie Chen was born with ink in her blood.” Paper Daughter starts with the days after Maggie’s father had been killed in a hit-and-run accident. Maggie lost connection with her father ever since the accident and reminisces the days with the guidance and shouldering of her father. The only knot tying them together is the ink in their blood, in which father is a journalist and Maggie decides to take the same steps by interning at the local newspaper. She eventually discovers that her father is suspected of illegal activity, so in the name of love and justice, she investigates to clear her father’s name and discovers secrets and lies connected to her ethnicity and her family. This mixture of mystery, journalism, and heroine gives off an exotic flavor. By the way, th... moree book cover is a masterpiece with Maggie’s realistic face and the Chinese cultural background.
review 2: Sasha ErnstPaper Daughter by Jeanette IngoldThe book Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold is about a girl named Maggie Chen, who is an intern at a Seattle newspaper company, whose father, a journalist, was recently killed in a hit-and-run accident. With all the stress of starting an internship, she has to go through all of his old papers and documents to find that he was researching a “family project”, and his old college supposedly doesn’t have any record of him, which gets Maggie thinking. Maggie decides to finish his family project by trying to find out who her father really was and who her real family might be. While doing all of this, she still has her internship to worry about and somehow her father is connected to her first project at the newspaper company and the Chinese Exclusion Act. She battles against herself, her mother, her father’s past, and even the other intern, Jillian. Maggie fights against herself because she does not want to find out that her father lied to her all these years but wants to finish what he started and clear his name of the illegal crime he is accused of. Her mother does not want to believe that Maggie’s father was involved with this illegal story and that he was a honest, good man, but that is not what everyone is lead to believe anymore. Plus her and the other intern are fighting to make the best impression at the newspaper company. In-between Maggie’s story, there is the story of Chinese twins Fai-yi and Sucheng Li. Flashbacks to 1932, recall how the twins entered the United States using a “paper father,” which is a way of getting around the laws prohibiting Chinese immigration. In the end, the two stories come together and finally Maggie finds the truth about her father and her real family. This story is based on true events in history but with a twist of modern day. It made the story exciting that the author never told you what really was going on until the end, and it was a complete mystery but an adventure as well. This was really a great book but at some parts very confusing. There are many twists in this book that are hard to grasp at first but are cleared up at the end. This book also shows the inside of what journalism is really like and really could persuade someone to be a journalist. It shares what the newspaper presses look like and how stressful working for a newspaper company can be. It also gives many life lessons like, not to lie because you can end up hurting someone you really care about and even the good people can get caught up in the bad things but that is just part of life. I would recommend this book for kids between the ages of thirteen to sixteen because it would be easy to relate to and the reading level is a little hard and confusing but would be a good challenge for that age. Jeanette Ingold took two stories and made them into one, and that is what really made this book special. It is an interesting, factual, well-written book that many people should have a chance to read. less

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