Linda sue park prairie lotus5/22/2023 ![]() Godey’s dress patterns, school exam nerves, the incredible taste of an orange, a town rising one storefront at a time - readers of Wilder’s work will savor the connections. ![]() Hanna, a more accomplished seamstress than Laura, shares an almost comical aversion to making buttonholes. The parallels to the Little House series are deliberate - and at times delicious. But it also describes PRAIRIE LOTUS (Clarion, 272 pp., $16.99 ages 10 and up), the captivating new novel by the Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park, whose heroine, Hanna Edmunds, is half Chinese. ![]() This might be “Little Town on the Prairie,” the seventh book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s iconic series about a pioneer family. In the spring of 1880, in a railroad town in Dakota Territory, a girl in her 15th year bends over her sewing to help support her family. ![]()
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