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Weedflower

by Cynthia Kadohata
₱292.05
Weedflower - Thryft
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Heartwarming tale of friendship and belonging.

Recommendation: Weedflower is a poignant and touching story about a Japanese-American girl named Sumiko, who is forced along with her family to move to an internment camp on an Indian reservation after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She's the only one of her kind in her school and is constantly struggling to fit in. But with the arrival of a new friend and companion in her life, who's angry about the existence of the camp on his tribe's land, interesting things begin to happen. The book sheds light on the subtle nuances of racial inequality and prejudice and is a must-read for anyone wanting to learn more about the devastating consequences of war on innocent lives.

  • Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2007)
  • Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Weedflower

by Cynthia Kadohata
₱292.05
ISBN: 9781416926658
Authors: Cynthia Kadohata
Publisher: Atheneum
Date of Publication: 2006-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Young Adult
Related Topics: World War II, War
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 4677 readers)

Description

Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two 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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Heartwarming tale of friendship and belonging.

Recommendation: Weedflower is a poignant and touching story about a Japanese-American girl named Sumiko, who is forced along with her family to move to an internment camp on an Indian reservation after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She's the only one of her kind in her school and is constantly struggling to fit in. But with the arrival of a new friend and companion in her life, who's angry about the existence of the camp on his tribe's land, interesting things begin to happen. The book sheds light on the subtle nuances of racial inequality and prejudice and is a must-read for anyone wanting to learn more about the devastating consequences of war on innocent lives.

  • Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Older Children (2007)
  • Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.