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Prairie Lotus
Linda Sue Park
Ages: 9+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Clarion
ISBN: 978-1-328-78150-5
Keywords: Frontier & Pioneer Life, Racism, Fathers & Daughters
Hanna, 14, who is half-Chinese, and her white father hope to be accepted into an 1880s Dakota Territory frontier town. Author's note.