Meet these new characters with big challenges!
I'm a big fan of Linda Sue Park, so when I saw she had a new book, I couldn't wait to read it! You might have read some of her other middle grade fiction, like "Long Walk to Water" or the Newbery award winning "The Single Shard". Her latest one is called "Prairie Lotus" and it's a terrific combination of historical fiction and modern activism. Hanna is 14 and she and her dad are traveling to an expansion town in South Dakota in hopes of settling there. They are leaving California, where although the family had a successful business there, it cost them Hanna's mother. Hanna's mom was injured during a riot and massacre of Chinese people and never fully recovered. Hanna and her dad are trying to build a new life. Hanna is hoping to go to school to get a diploma, something her mother wanted badly for her. Hanna is also a talented dressmaker and she would like to pursue that as a career. The new town has an ally-a friend of her dad...