![]() ![]() Hanna’s struggles to prove her worth are eye-opening. The cruelty that Hanna experiences, including when most of her classmates choose to leave school rather than share a classroom with her, is appalling. The book’s pioneer landscape features wooden store fronts and a one-room school house, against which the socially acceptable prejudices of the white majority are considered. Hanna decides to meet prejudice with grace and dignity. These goals might be achievable for others, but in the Dakota settlement town of LaForge, Hanna’s background makes her a target of distrust and hostility. In Linda Sue Park’s insightful novel Prairie Lotus, an Asian American girl and her father face prejudice in the 1880s Midwest.įourteen-year-old Hanna wants to make a friend, earn her diploma, and make dresses for her father’s store. ![]()
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