- Mohave Indians, Japanese Americans, Indians of North America, Juvenile fiction
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Cynthia Kadohata
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 260
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780689865749
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