Weedflower

by Cynthia Kadohata

With remarkable insight and clarity, the Newbery Medal-winning author of Kira-Kira explores an important and painful topic through the eyes of a young Japanese-American girl living in California just as the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.

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.

Interest Level:   5th grade     6th grade     7th grade     8th grade 

Reading Level:   Guided Reading Level X     DRA Level 60

book type:    chapter book

Related Lists:   history     World War II books

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