When today's news comes from yesterday's
secrets . . .

Maggie Chen plunges into the fast-moving world of journalism not suspecting the first story she investigates will be her own.

Could the answers she seeks lie with Fai-yi Li? He was a teen when Seattle's International District was known as Chinatown
. . . when the immigration laws of the Chinese Exclusion Era held sway
. . . when paper sons and paper daughters left true identities behind.

"This novel is a must read for those who love mysteries and family history."--VOYA

Writing PAPER DAUGHTER is the topic of this video interview made by Kathi Appelt, author of THE UNDERNEATH and KEEPER, among many award-winning works from picture books to novels and poetry.

http://www.kathiappelt.com/blog/books/jeanette-ingold-more-than-one-life/

What's New

Working on a novel?

If your dream wish is for a block of time to focus on your writing, check the Highlights Whole Novel Workshop in March. The faculty for this intimate workshop (it's limited to sixteen participants) will be authors Kathi Appelt, Alan Gratz, and I and editor Martha Mihalik. Hurry though--the application deadline is almost here!

http://www.highlightsfoundation.org/content/whole-novel-workshop

Jeanette Ingold Speaking to High School Group Kettering High School, Waterford, Michigan, chose PAPER DAUGHTER for its 2011 One Book-One Community reading.

During a day at Kettering, I gave a behind-the-scenes look at how books are written. Then I visited with journalism and English classes, was interviewed by a video crew, and led a creative writing workshop for a group of talented students.

A great student dramatization of PAPER DAUGHTER's opening scenes kicked off the two-month One Book project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=627SKijm_BE

Job Corps youth study The Big Burn

University of Montana education students led students at Montana's Trapper Creek Job Corps Center in a several-week reading of THE BIG BURN, my novel about the history-changing wildfire of 1910. The project culminated with a Skype visit organized around great questions the students had compiled.

Do you read on a Kindle? On a Nook?

My novels are now available in electronic book formats, as well as in print.

Paper Daughter the Book of the Week at BYU

The Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library Families Literacy site and Children's Book and Play Review featured PAPER DAUGHTER as a Book of the Week pick recently. The review can be found at:

http://lib.byu.edu/sites/famliteracy/2011/02/04/book-of-the-week-paper-daughter/

Upcoming and recent appearances

Children's Literature Festival, Central Missouri University, Warrensburg, Mar 18-20, 2012
Highlights Whole Novel Workshop, Honesdale, PA, Mar 11-17, 2012
University of Montana Young Adult Literature Class, Oct 24, 2011
Montana Library Association/Montana Association of Teachers of English Language Arts, Missoula, Oct 20-21, 2011
One Book-One Community presentation of Paper Daughter, Waterford, MI., May 16, 2011
National Council of Teachers of English, ALAN, Orlando, FL, Nov. 22-23, 2010
Children's Festival of the Book, Bozeman, MT, Nov. 5-6, 2010
Montana Festival of the Book, Missoula, Oct. 30
School visits around the country -- every year, and always a treat! In person and now by Skype.