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Weedflower /
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| Author |
Kadohata, Cynthia.
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| Call Number |
jFIC KAD |
| Publisher |
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, |
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Subject
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Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
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Mohave Indians -- Fiction.
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Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Fiction.
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Juvenile literature.
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Arizona -- History -- 1912-1950 -- Fiction.
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| Title Statement |
Weedflower / Cynthia Kadohata. |
| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
260 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Target Audience |
Ages 11 up. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Awards Notes |
A Junior Library Guild selection. |
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Young Hoosier Book Award, 2008-2009, 6-8 Nominee. |
| ISBN |
0689865740 (hardcover) : |
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1416975667 (pbk.) |
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9781415672327 |
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9781416975663 (pbk.) |
| LCCN |
2004024912 |
| Hold Requests |
0 |
| Bib No. |
1047496 |