Weedflower
Title
:
Weedflower
Personal Author EPSB
:
Cynthia, Kadohata
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.
Year Published
:
2009,
2006
Physical Description
:
260 pages ; 22 cm
Edition
:
1st ed.
Reading Grade level
:
5.3
Age Interest level
:
Gr. 5-9.
Grade Interest level
:
All Secondary
Program Information
:
Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 7.0 104757
Gr. 7+
5.0
Awards
:
A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject
:
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
Indigenous peoples -- Mohave -- Fiction.
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Arizona -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
Mohave -- Fiction.
Indigenous peoples -- Arizona -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Arizona -- History -- 1912-1950 -- Fiction.
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.
ISBN
:
9780689865749
9780545334129
9781416975663
9780329734176
Publisher
:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.
New York : Scholastic, 2006
New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2009.
©2006
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| D.S. MacKenzie | FIC KAD | Book | 30522000366291 | Historical Fiction |