Pros: Allow me to introduce my first definite Newbery contender for 2021.
Includes an author’s note in which Linda Sue Park explains how she wrote this book to find a place for herself in her beloved Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Overcoming fear and prejudice, Hanna ultimately finds a way to become part of her new community. Hanna invites Bess to help her with the sewing at her father’s new dry goods store, and the two work together to help Hanna realize her dream of becoming a dressmaker. Bess Harris and Hanna end up taking their graduation exams together and become friends. Pretty soon, the only students left are Mr.
Hanna’s late mother encouraged her to go to school, but when Hanna enrolls, many of the locals keep their children at home rather than have them study side-by-side with a Chinese girl. They decide on the town of LaForge, where Hanna’s father knows the local constable, Mr. Summary: Hanna and her widowed father are hoping to find a home in Dakota Territory it’s 1880, and they have been having trouble finding a town that will accept half-Chinese Hanna.
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