About the Book: Weedflower
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,