Weedflower
By: Cynthia Kadohata
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780689865749
Subjects: Mohave Indians; World War, 1939-1945; Indians of North America; Juvenile fiction; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Fiction; Japanese Americans; History
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 11 up.

A Junior Library Guild selection.