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This relates to the setting because this is where Hanna and her family lived before they went to La Forge. They lived in Chinatown.

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This part of the book is where Hanna is traveling with her father after her mother died. Hanna and her father were going to La Forge in a covered wagon to start a business.

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This is La Forge. Hanna and her father went here and Hanna started going to school while her father started a dressmaking business.

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This is a schoolhouse. This is where Hanna went to school and graduated in La Forge.

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This is the dressmaking shop Hanna and her father work at.

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Page 33

Then Mr. Harris grew serious. "The way I see it, any child under the age of twenty-one resident in the town of LaForge has the right to attend school here. I'll tell Miss Walters to expect a new student on Monday."

This is important to the storyline because it shows Hanna being able to start going to school. She was never able to go to school before and even though most people were against it she was able to go to school. Hanna was able to make some friends at school despite her being half chinese.

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Page 231

Hanna drew back from the window, dizzy with disbelief. Bess had done it. Somehow, she had gotten what looked like half the town to come to the opening.

This is important to the storyline because Hanna had an encounter with Mr. Swenson and even Hanna wasn't even the tiniest bit at fault she was blamed, people didn't was to patronize the dressmaking shop since she worked at it. Hanna might've had to leave LaForge if Bess hadn't gone door to door with Miss Walters to tell everyone what really happened.

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I would give this book 3 stars. It didn't really captivate me. I don't really like historical fiction that much and I just like more action in books.

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The author believes that it's what's on the inside that matters. Some people need to change what they think because they automatically assume things about you based on the way you look on the outside. Hanna is half-Chinese and when she first arrives at LaForge most of the people around her don't want to interact with her and judge her by her black hair, and skin color. In the end, Hanna is accepted by basically everyone for who she is, and they start seeing her as who she truly is on the inside and not just what she looks like. People finally start seeing beyond her surface.

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Dear Ms Park,

I read your book, Prairie Lotus. I like how the main character is half-Chinese. I also like how the book talked about her struggles which many people in real life probably struggled with too. What inspired you to write this book? What were you thinking when you wrote this book? Did you base it on something about yourself? I know you also wrote other books, did you have ideas in your head already when you wrote them, or did you just sit down and write?

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Hanna probably feels all alone when she first gets to LaForge because almost no one welcomes her. At school, no one talks to her and after the first day, they start gossiping about her. She probably feels like this girl, just trying to fit in, but stuck on her own island because when she just gets to La Forge no one wants to interact with her.

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Hanna likes to draw different dresses from a book and combine them to make new patterns and dresses. She sews dresses at her father's dress-making shop.

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After Hanna's mother died, she took over cooking and other things her mom usually did. When Hanna and her father were on their way to LaForge Hanna made friends with some Indians and cooked some food for them.