Weedflower

I liked this book written by Cynthia Kadohata. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she has always had her flowers and family to go home to. Now, other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies for the emperor, and Sumiko and her family find themselves being shipped to an internment camp in the hot desert of Arizona. The vivid color of her previous life gone forever, and now dust storms regularly choke the sky and seep into every crack of the military barrack that is her new home.