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: 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,  Children's fiction,  Children, fiction,  Japanese americans, fiction,  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  Indians of north america, fiction,  Arizona, fiction

Places: United States,  Arizona

Times: 1912-1950,  1942-1945