Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two
parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad
part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to
being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids
tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to.
That all changes after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor.
Other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies
for the emperor, even if, like Sumiko, they were born in the United
States! As suspicions grow, Sumiko and her family find themselves
being shipped to an internment camp in one of the hottest deserts
in the United States. The vivid color of her previous life is gone
forever, and now dust storms regularly choke the sky and seep into
every crack of the military barrack that is her new "home."
Sumiko soon discovers that the camp is on an Indian reservation
and that the Japanese are as unwanted there as they'd been at home.
But then she meets a young Mohave boy who might just become her
first real friend...if he can ever stop being angry about the fact
that the internment camp is on his tribe's land.
With searing insight and clarity, Newbery Medal-winning author
Cynthia Kadohata explores an important and painful topic through
the eyes of a young girl who yearns to belong. Weedflower is the
story of the rewards and challenges of a friendship across the
racial divide, as well as the based-on-real-life story of how the
meeting of Japanese Americans and Native Americans changed the
future of both.
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