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Weedflower
By Kadohata, Cynthia
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68986-574-9
- Publisher
- Atheneum
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2006
Gr 5-8 When Pearl Harbor is attacked, the lives of a Japanese-American girl and her family are thrown into chaos. Sumiko, 12, and her younger brother, Tak-Tak, live with their aunt and uncle, grandfather Jiichan, and adult cousins on a flower farm in Southern California. Though often busy with chores, Sumiko enjoys working with the blossoms, particularly stock, or weedflowers (fragrant plants grown in a field). In the difficult days that follow the bombing, the family members fear for their saf...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2006
Kadohata follows her Newbery-winning Kira-Kira (rev. 3/04) with a novel about a Japanese-American girl, Sumiko, who is twelve in 1941. Though her parents died years before, Sumiko doesn't feel like an orphan; she loves her family's California flower farm, where she lives contentedly with her younger brother, aunt, uncle, cousins, and beloved grandfather. Life changes dra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
