Caroline Fraser’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography expands on the Little House universe by filling in the gaps in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s semi-autobiographical novels.
ACCENT: PIONEER GIRL by Bich Minh Nguyen
A quick description of this book sounds highly bizarre and unlikely to hang together. A brother and sister are first generation Vietnamese Americans, struggling to find their own identities while respecting their mother and grandfather’s fierce loyalties to their heritage. As a child, our narrator loved the Little House on the Prairie series of books. She…