Details
Rent Weedflower
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Narrator: Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
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.
Reviews
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.