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Weedflower

by Cynthia Kadohata · 2006

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Popularity 24

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.

Mohave IndiansJapanese AmericansIndians of North AmericaJuvenile fictionEvacuation and relocation, 1942-1945FictionWorld War, 1939-1945HistoryPreteen girlsJapanese-American girlsDetermination in girlsThe Forties (20th century)