Prairie Lotus
Linda Sue Park
In 1880, fifteen-year-old Hanna and her father leave Los Angeles to begin again in LaForge in the Dakota Territories. Hanna wants a diploma and hopes to make dresses for the fabric shop her father is opening. Her father is white and her late mother was Chinese, and Hanna faces strong anti-Asian prejudice in town. When other families remove their children from school after Hanna enrolls, she worries about school and the family business.
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