Weedflower /
Cynthia Kadohata.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2006.
- 260 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Ages 11 up.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
0689865740 (hardcover) :
978689865749
2004024912
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Fiction. World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction. Mohave Indians--Fiction. Indians of North America--Arizona--Fiction.