This book was about a 12 year old Japanese-American girl, Sumiko, and their lives in camps after Pearl Harbor. I liked learning about their journey in the camps because I have never learned about this before. I think that a lot of times, Americans try to hide this from our history because we put most Japanese into camps. However, I think that it is important to know where our country came from, even if it was not the best thing to do at the time. It was also interesting to see how she delt with living in the camps and how her and Mr. Moto tried to make the best out of the situation. I think that the flowers helped show that there can be hope even in the worst of times. I think that I could definitely use this in my classroom. For example, since they never explained what happened to the family after they got out of the camps, I think that this could be a chance for the students to predict what would happen next.
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