Weedflower
By: Cynthia Kadohata
Edition: Aladdin paperbacks ed.
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781416975663
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Japanese-American girls; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Fiction; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850; The Forties (20th century); World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Interethnic friendship; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese-Americans; World War II; Determination in girls; Twelve-year-old girls; Mohave Indians; Indians of North America; Juvenile fiction; Native American boys; Mass internment; Preteen girls; Japanese Americans; History; Japanese-American families
Description: 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.
Notes: Ages 10-14.