Weedflower

Sumiko is twelve when her Japanese-American family is uprooted from the flower fields they farm in southern California and sent to a detention camp on a reservation in the Arizona desert. Life in the camp is unfamiliar and hard, but Sumiko pitches in to support her relatives and the families around her.

In the camp she forms a friendship with a Mojave boy from the nearby community. Through it all, she keeps alive her hope of one day running a flower shop of her own.