My Father's Daughter

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Poor Little Rich Boy

Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach, and a fancy private school. But with overprotective parents and a sense of responsibility for his younger sister, Heidi, Winston sometimes feels more as if he's living in a prison than a dream.

Then one day a woman appears at the front door claiming to be Caroline -- Winston's half sister, who was kidnapped and presumed dead long before he and Heidi were born. Is she really Caroline Is she an imposter Or is she something far more complicated than either And does she hold the key that could unlock the door to Winston's prison

Reviews

"Original and beautifully crafted."

-- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review
"Perceptive readers who enjoy deliberating over a puzzle will remember the arcane daughter."

-- Booklist, starred review

Author Bio

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968,From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerwon the Newbery Medal andJennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabethwas named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again forThe View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books areSilent to the Bone,The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, andThe Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World.