Book
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- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- EASTWOOD: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
Prairie lotus
Call Number
- J PARK (CEN, EAS, OSH)
Publication Information
Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]
Physical Description
261 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hanna, in a small town in America's heartland, in 1880. Hanna's adjustment to her new surroundings, which primarily means negotiating the townspeople's almost unanimous prejudice against Asians, is at the heart of the story. Narrated by Hanna, the novel has poignant moments yet sparkles with humor, introducing a captivating heroine whose wry, observant voice will resonate with readers. In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
Subjects
- Racially mixed people > Juvenile fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life > Dakota Territory > Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
- Racism > Juvenile fiction.
- Dressmaking > Juvenile fiction.
- Racially mixed people > Fiction.
- Frontier and pioneer life > Dakota Territory > Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
- Racism > Fiction.
- Dressmaking > Fiction.
- Dakota Territory > Juvenile fiction.
- Dakota Territory > Fiction.