Lotus Prairie

Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is ultimately fan-fiction for Little House on the Prairie. Only Hanna is part Asian (Chinese Korean) and her and her Caucasian father are opening a dress shop in a growing town on the plains. She deals with racism while trying to graduate from school and prove to her father she is capable of sewing in the shop. She is grieving her deceased mother and making friends with the local Indians. Pa is not as warm as Laura Wilder's and some of Hanna's challenges are more real and more insidious than what I remember from my copy of yellow paperbacks, but hopefully this made for young readers novel will help kids to identify and be informed by Hanna's adventures.

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