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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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June 30, 2008 -
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- ISBN: 9781439132104
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- ISBN: 9781439132104
- File size: 190 KB
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- English
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- ATOS Level: 4.8
- Lexile® Measure: 750
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 3-4
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- English
Levels
- ATOS Level:4.8
- Lexile® Measure:750
- Interest Level:4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty:3-4
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