Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata Paperback Book

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Author: Cynthia Kadohata

Narrator: Kimberly Farr

Format: Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: Mar 2006

Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - General

Retail Price: $30.00

Discs: 5

Synopsis

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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BookLender review by Lisa the Librarian on 2007-10-09 13:48:50

It's not that this is a bad story. It's not that Kadohata is a bad writer. But her characters and narrative voice are filled with such quiet despair; Kira Kira was the same way. Narrator Kimberly Farr certainly succeeds in conveying that tone. It's an interesting story that brings out the conflict between Native Americans and the Japanese-American internees, and it is not an entirely dark story. If you liked Kira Kira and the author's voice, you will doubtless enjoy Weedflower.