Author- Philip Pullman

 Ginny, a sixteen year old, part English, part Haitian girl has been
living with her dad since she was a baby. Her mom died when she was only a
baby. At least that's what her dad told her. Ginny was a great artist like
her Haitian mother.
     Then her life turns upside down. She learns that she has a white
half-brother named Robert, the child of her dad's first marriage. Then her
dad tells her he never divorced Robert's mother and didn't even marry her
mother.
    Then she really wanted to find out more about herself because she thought her dad
was lying, so she and Robert went to their grandparents' house
and found out some thing they didn't know. What happens when she confronts her father?