|aNew York :|bAtheneum Books for Young Readers,|c2009.
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|a260 p. ;|c20 cm.
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|aAfter 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 Native American boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
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|aJapanese Americans|xEvacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
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|aWorld War, 1939-1945|zUnited States|vJuvenile fiction.
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|aMohave Indians|vJuvenile fiction.
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|aIndians of North America|zArizona|vJuvenile fiction.
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|aJapanese Americans|xEvacuation and relocation, 1942-1945|vFiction.
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.