Weedflower

Sumiko and her younger brother, Tak Tak, are Japanese-American children who live with their aunt, uncle and two cousins on a flower farm in California. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, all Japanese-Americans are rounded up and sent to internment camps because the U. S. government fears that some among them might be spies with loyalties to Japan. Sumiko and her family find themselves living with thousands of others, in crude quarters in the blistering hot desert of Arizona in a camp which borders a reservation for Native Americans. As the days turn into weeks and months, Sumiko's dream of one day owning her own flower shop seems to be crumbling into the dusty dirt beneath her feet.