Sesana's Reviews > Kirsten Learns a Lesson: A School Story

Two stories in one, which is an interesting choice for such a short book. On one hand, there's Kirsten's struggles at school when she has very limited English proficiency, and then there's the storyline about her befriending a Native American girl. I'd love to see some good, historical criticism about the latter. I get that Shaw wanted to recognize that the opportunity Kirsten's family is taking advantage of comes at the expense of the Native population, but I think that needed to be the whole story of this book to do it anything like justice.