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Availability:In StockContributor:Cynthia KadohataAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:4/1/2006Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9780689865749ISBN-10:689865740UPC:9780689865749Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Social Themes, FamilyBook Topic:United States, Prejudice & Racism, MultigenerationalAward:2008 Bluebonnet Awards Nominee - Children's Award|2008 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee - Children's Award|2007 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winner - Books for Older Children Award|Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee - Grades 4-6 Award|2008 Beehive Awards Nominee - Fiction Award|Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award Nominee - Children's Award|2010 Nene Award Recommended - Children's Fiction Award|2009 Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee - Middle Grades Award|Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominee - Children's Book Award|2006 Cybils Finalist - Middle Grade Fiction AwardSize:8.53 x 5.82 x 1.02 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCE95YX903
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 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9780689865749ISBN-10:689865740UPC:9780689865749Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Social Themes, FamilyBook Topic:United States, Prejudice & Racism, MultigenerationalAward:2008 Bluebonnet Awards Nominee - Children's Award|2008 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee - Children's Award|2007 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winner - Books for Older Children Award|Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee - Grades 4-6 Award|2008 Beehive Awards Nominee - Fiction Award|Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award Nominee - Children's Award|2010 Nene Award Recommended - Children's Fiction Award|2009 Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee - Middle Grades Award|Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominee - Children's Book Award|2006 Cybils Finalist - Middle Grade Fiction AwardSize:8.53 x 5.82 x 1.02 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCE95YX903
Cynthia Kadohata won the National Book Award for The Thing About Luck and the Newbery Medal for Kira-Kira. She's also the author of many more critically acclaimed novels, including Checked, A Million Shades of Gray, A Place to Belong, Weedflower, Cracker!, and Outside Beauty. In addition to rescuing Dobermans, she's also managed her son's hockey team. She lives in California. Visit her online at CynthiaKadohata.com.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Awards

🏆 2008 Bluebonnet Awards Nominee - Children's Award|2008 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee - Children's Award|2007 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winner - Books for Older Children Award|Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee - Grades 4-6 Award|2008 Beehive Awards Nominee - Fiction Award|Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award Nominee - Children's Award|2010 Nene Award Recommended - Children's Fiction Award|2009 Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee - Middle Grades Award|Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominee - Children's Book Award|2006 Cybils Finalist - Middle Grade Fiction Award

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