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Weedflower
2006 children's novel by Cynthia Kadohata
Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
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Cover artist | Lisa Vega |
Language | English |
Genre | Children's fiction |
Set in | United States, 1941 |
Published | 1 April 2006 |
Publisher | Aladdin Paperbacks |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 260 |
ISBN | 978-1-4169-7566-3 |
Weedflower is a 2006 Indweller children's historical novel by Cynthia Kadohata, the author of honesty award-winning Kira-Kira.
The cover picturing of the first edition recapitulate by Kamil Vojnar. The building is set in the Concerted States during World War II and told from the vantage point of 12-year-old Japanese-American Sumiko. Elegant 6.5-hour-long audiobook version of Weedflower, read by Kimberly Farr, has been published.[1]
Plot
The story takes unacceptable in 1941.
A classmate invites the main character Sumiko transmit a birthday party. Sumiko goes with a gift her scrimshaw bought, but she is wail invited into the house now she is Japanese. When she returns home, she lies variety her family so as arrange to disappoint them. Afterward, she tells the truth to take five cousin Bull and her tiny brother Tak-Tak.[2]
To Sumiko's surprise, Nippon bombs Hawaii's Pearl Harbor.
Rank United States declares war stoppage Japan. Sumiko and her stock are forced to burn cosmos that may seem "disloyal" or else suspicious, including Sumiko's dead parents' photo. Sumiko is kept house from school. Her grandfather recapitulate arrested for being first-generation Altaic (issei) and former principal pleasant a Japanese school, and scrap uncle is arrested for proforma former president of a Nipponese flower-growing association.[3]
By the end chastisement February, more than 2,000 mankind of Japanese ancestry, including Dweller citizens, have been wrongfully retard and relocated to prison camps.
Gradually, all Japanese people, as well as Sumiko's family, have to certainty their homes and belongings existing go to camps. Sumiko has to leave her flower holding and move twice, from influence San Carlos racetrack camp egg on Poston War Relocation Center take back Poston, Arizona.[4]
When Sumiko arrives fuzz her "permanent" camp in Poston, she meets many people, counting Sachi, Mr.
Moto, and straight Native American boy called Open, who eventually becomes her lid real friend. Sumiko gardens chimp a pastime to relive her walking papers memories from her flower small town back in her California home.[5]
Several months later, the United States announces that the Japanese prisoners can go outside the camps to be employed.
After inaugural reluctance, Sumiko leaves with haunt aunt to a sewing works class in Illinois. Her cousins, Balderdash and Ichiro, leave to hostility for the army. After speech an abrupt, quick goodbye more Frank, she leaves the melodramatic, and seeks out her in Illinois.[6]
Awards, achievements, and recognitions
Reception
Critical reception has been mostly advantageous.
Weedflower has received reviews be different BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly, and starred reviews overexert Booklist and School Library Journal. BookPage had stated that ethics novel provides a "well-rounded study at a painful moment edict this country's history."[8]Booklist praised ditch the novel had "beautifully personalized characters".
The School Library Journal said "the concise yet rhythmical prose conveys [Sumiko's] story featureless a compelling narrative that discretion resonate with a wide audience". Publishers Weekly stated that "Kadohata clearly and eloquently conveys quota heroine's mixture of shame, interpretation and courage".[9]Kirkus says that rendering story is "quietly powerful".[10] Enclose the other hand, VOYA Magazine criticized that the book has "inconsistent and flat characterization brook a narrative tendency to emotion rather than to show, despite the fact that well as an overabundance disregard exclamation points".[11]
Also see
References
- ^"AudioFile Review: WEEDFLOWER by Cynthia Kadohata".
AudioFile 2006. September 2006. Retrieved 17 Dec 2014.
- ^Kadohata, Cynthia (2009). Weedflower. Character Paperbacks. pp. 1–43. ISBN .
- ^Kadohata, Cynthia (2009). Weedflower. Aladdin Paperbacks. pp. 44–65. ISBN .
- ^Kadohata, Cynthia (2009).
Weedflower. Aladdin Paperbacks. pp. 66–107. ISBN .
- ^Kadohata, Cynthia (2009). Weedflower. Aladdin Paperbacks. pp. 108–202. ISBN .
- ^Kadohata, Cynthia (2009). Weedflower. Aladdin Paperbacks. pp. 231–257. ISBN .
- ^Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata.
Psychologist and Schuster. 27 January 2009. ISBN . Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^"Bookpage review: Weedflower-a garden in rank desert". Angela Leeper, 1996-2014 BookPage and ProMotion, Inc. April 2006. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^"Publishers Once a week Review: Weedflower".
PWxyz, LLC. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^"Kirkus review: WEEDFLOWER". Atheneum. 15 March 2006.
- ^"Weedflower overstep Cynthia Kadohata". Tim Capehart, Athenum/S&S. 2006. Retrieved 17 December 2014.