Title: Weedflower
Author: Cynthia Kadohata
Genre: Non-fiction
Number of Pages: 257
Quote: "Bye Weedflower Girl!"
"Bye! And by the way my name is Sumiko, not Weedflower!

The book I read this week is a book called Weed-flower.
Whenever you see a Japanese girl or boy passing, do you think they are different? Well we see the difference but we don't always point it out. They're still people. They eat, they drink, they breathe air, they do all that, just like a normal human being. This book is about the life of an innocent Japanese girl, who was sent to a prison camp, because the Americans thought she and her kind were harmful. It is true that the Japanese fought alongside the Germans during the World War || and the Americans were scared, but not all Japanese were as harmful. Many Japanese that had lived their whole life in America were still sent to a camp where they had to stay out of the way, until the end of the war.
This girl what was sent to the camp, despite the fact that she had a whole flower farm to take care of. Her uncle and brother were captured and sent to another camp, whereas the rest of the family were forced to move to a separate one. However, the girl didn't think it too bad. It wasn't really a prison, it was quite a camp, where people got enough food, and could grow their own gardens, but somehow the girl found it very hot, and lonely. And there she met an Indian boy.  The boy was complaining that the Japanese were occupying their area. The girl felt bad, but horrified that she had met an Indian boy. The reason was because everyone thought them as dangerous, and if entered their path, people would be scalped. But the girl soon realised that those were all lies. The Indians were exactly the same as them. And as time drew on, the boy and the girl got to know each other better, the Indian boy started calling the girl Weed flower, instead of her real name. But then came the time when the girl and her family were going to move out again to another camp. Saying good bye to her only friend ever, she realised that even if people were different, it couldn't stop them from being great friends.
I enjoyed this book greatly. It wasn't very adventurous but it was quite touching. Do you remember the Blog post I wrote about Kira- Kira? Since this book was written by the same author, I got inspired to read it.