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Weedflower
Title:
Weedflower
JLCTITLE245:
Cynthia Kadohata.
Personal Author:
Kadohata, Cynthia.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©2006.
Physical Description:
260 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780689865749
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
Ages 11 up.

750 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 4.8 7 Quiz 104757 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Subject Term:
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.

Mohave Indians -- Juvenile fiction.

Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Juvenile fiction.

Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.

Mohave Indians -- Fiction.

Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Fiction.

Japanese-American girls -- Fiction.

Determination in girls -- Fiction.

The Forties (20th century) -- Fiction.

Japanese-American families -- Fiction.

Japanese-Americans -- Mass internment -- 1942-1945 -- Fiction.

World War II -- Fiction.

Native American boys -- Fiction.

Interethnic friendship -- Fiction.

Twelve-year-old girls -- Fiction.

Preteen girls -- Fiction.

Japanese Americans-Evacuation and relocation -- Mohave Indians-Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Arizona -- History -- 1912-1950 -- Juvenile fiction.

Arizona -- History -- 1912-1950 -- Fiction.
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