The next day, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and the US enters World War II. She returns home after several hours and pretends that she enjoyed the party to please her family but feels lonelier and more humiliated than ever. When she arrives at the party, however, she isn’t allowed to stay because she’s Japanese. As the novel begins, Sumiko feels that her loneliness may finally be at an end when her classmate invites her to a birthday party. She loves tending to the flowers on her family’s farm but feels lonely as the only Japanese girl in her class, she doesn’t have any friends at school and is too busy helping on the farm to spend time with children in her neighborhood. Her parents died in a car accident when she was seven. Twelve-year-old Sumiko lives with her aunt, uncle, cousins, grandfather, and younger brother. The novel begins in 1941, a few days before the attack on Pearl Harbor that provokes the US to join World War II. This guide references the 2009 paperback reprint edition from Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
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