Title: Weedflower
First published: 2006
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.
Subjects: Mohave Indians, Japanese Americans, Indians of North America, Juvenile fiction, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, History, Preteen girls, Japanese-American girls, Determination in girls, The Forties (20th century), Japanese-American families, Japanese-Americans, Mass internment, World War II, Native American boys, Interethnic friendship, Twelve-year-old girls, Evacuation of civilians, Native Americans, Children's fiction, Japanese americans, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Indians of north america, fiction, Arizona, fiction
Places: United States, Arizona
Time periods: 1912-1950
LC classification: PZ7.K1166 We 2006