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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 utilized to being the one Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has already established her flowers and family to go home to.
Now, other Americans learn to suspect that Japanese people are spies for the emperor and Sumiko and her family find themselves being shipped with an internment camp in one of the hottest deserts in the United States. The vivid color of her previous life is gone forever, and today 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 japan are as unwanted there as they’d been at home. But then she meets a Mohave boy who could become her first real friend….
With searing insight and clarity, Newbery Medal—winning author Cynthia Kadohata explores an important and painful topic through the eyes of a girl who yearns to belong. Weedflower is the storyplot of the rewards and challenges of the friendship over 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.
