Weedflower

Type

Book

Authors

Kadohata, Cynthia

ISBN 13

9780689865749

Tags

Booklist Editors' Choice, Jane Addams Childrens Book Awards, American People, Asian People, determination in girls, East Asian People, Indigenous boys, Interethnic friendship, Japanese American families, Japanese American girls, Japanese Americans, North American people, Preteen Girls, Twelve-year-old girls, World War II

Abstract

After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.

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