Junior historical fiction. Fulfills Author from Asia category in the Pioneer Book challenge.
Linda Sue Park is one of my favorite authors. She wrote the Newbery medal winning novel, A Single Shard and A Long Walk to Water, both amazing books with great stories and lessons to be learned. Prairie Lotus is about a young half Chinese girl on the American frontier in South Dakota. Her mother has passed away and her father is looking for a new place to put down roots. She is faced with people who are leery of her heritage and question her ability to learn and work in their small town. She deals with all of this with a determination to make her mother proud and prove others wrong.
Linda Sue Park grew up reading the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and even wished she could have been Laura's friend. This book is in tribute to those books and also deals with the difficult issues of different races during the late 1800s in growing America. It is a great insight into the difficulties of educating people about differences and making those differences a good thing.
Recommend: Yes
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