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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Wilson's Children, October 2010 Wilson's Junior High School, August 2007 School Library Journal starred, July 2006 Book Links (A.L.A.), December 2008 Booklist starred, April 2006 Library Media Connection starred, January 2007 Horn Book Starred, October 2006 Publisher's Weekly, February 2006 Horn Book, July 2006 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), June 2006 Wilson's Children Wilson's Junior High School School Library Journal starred
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