260 pages
English language
Published March 16, 2009 by Aladdin Paperbacks.
Weedflower
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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
- 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
Places
- United States
- Arizona