Half-Asian girl in 1880s Dakota Territory faces prejudice while seeking education, friendship, and a dressmaking career.
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Half-Asian girl in 1880s Dakota Territory faces prejudice while seeking education, friendship, and a dressmaking career.
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Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered novel 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 th...
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Sexual content
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Minor crush on a classmate; no other romantic or sexual content.
Violence & gore
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Mother injured in race riots; attempted assault occurs off-page with emotional aftermath.
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central exploration of racism, prejudice, and exclusion faced by Asian characters.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Racial slurs, bullying, exclusion, death of mother, and attempted sexual assault with lasting effects.
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