Book of the Week: Paper Daughter
February 4, 2011 in Book of the Week, Fiction, Teen 13+
Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, Young Adult.
After her father is killed in a hit and run car accident, life is hard for Maggie and her mom as they try to adjust to life alone. Maggie works hard at her journalism internship to honor him. She comes across some notes of a story her father had been investigating before he died and discovers her father has lied about his past. She must put together the right clues in order to prove his innocence from illegal activity and discover a family she never knew.
Ingold weaves a modern tale and historical events together into a novel that combines today’s prejudices with history’s past injustices. Readers will want to know more about the historical elements of the story after reading this realistic tale.
–The Book of the Week comes from the Children’s Book and Play Review. This week’s review was written by Ruth-Anne Brown, a BYU Student in the School of Education. A more in-depth review can be found here.
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