Weedflower

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

Times: 1912-1950