Weedflower

About this book

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

• arizona, fiction
• children's fiction
• determination in girls
• evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
• evacuation of civilians
• fiction
• history
• indians of north america
• indians of north america, fiction
• interethnic friendship
• japanese-american families
• japanese-american girls
• japanese americans
• japanese-americans
• japanese americans, fiction
• juvenile fiction
• mass internment
• mohave indians
• native american boys
• native americans
• preteen girls
• the forties (20th century)
• twelve-year-old girls
• world war, 1939-1945
• world war, 1939-1945, fiction
• world war ii