Cynthia Kadohata

• Jul-1989
• / General Fiction
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"Maks the debut of a luminious new voice in fiction."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Olivia, the young narrator of this beautiful novel, and her Japanese-American family are constantly on the road, looking for a home in the 1950s. Then traveling becomes a ...

• Aug-1992
• / Fantasy
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"An apocalyptic picture of America on the brink of civil disorder and social collapse" (New York Times). In the deteriorating LA of 2052, a young girl is forced by tragedy to venture from her secure environs into a world where survival takes preceden...

• Jan-1995
• / Fantasy
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Mariska couldn-t be happier. Living an almost fairy-tale life, she is popular, adored by her parents, and is engaged to be married to the most attractive man in her village. But her world is torn when war approaches the peaceful village of Bakshami. ...

• Feb-2004
• / General Fiction
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kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. ...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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CRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS: a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She's a Big Deal, and she likes it that way. Sometimes...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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"My mother had four daughters by four different men." There's only one way Shelby and her sisters can describe their mother: She's a sexpot. Helen Kimura collects men (and loans, spending money, and gifts of all kinds) from all over the country. Sur...

• Jul-2008
• / General Fiction
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Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the o...

• Jan-2010
• / General Fiction
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Y'Tin is brave. No one in his village denies that -- his mother may wish that he’d spend more time on school work than on elephant training, but still she knows that it takes a great deal of courage and calm to deal with elephants the way that ...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction
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There is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck -- which is exactly what Summer must do to save her family in this novel from Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata. Summer knows that kouun means “good luck” in Japanese, and this year her fa...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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A kid who considers himself an epic fail discovers the transformative power of love when he deals with adoption in this novel from Cynthia Kadohata, winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award. Eleven-year-old Jaden is adopted, and he ...

• Feb-2018
• / Historical
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From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata comes a brilliantly realized sports novel about a hockey player who must discover who he is without the sport that defines him. Hockey is Conor’s life. His whole life. He’ll say it himself, he’s a hocke...

• May-2019
• / Historical
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A Japanese-American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps, gives up their American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb in this piercing look at the aftermath...

• Oct-2020
• / General Fiction
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From Newbery Medalist and National Book Award�"winning author Cynthia Kadohata comes a “funny, lively” (Horn Book Magazine), and heartwarming story about a girl and her ever-growing pig, Saucy -- perfect for fans of The One and Only Ivan and Flo...

• Apr-2025
• / General Fiction
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A teen boy thinks his vaping habit is harmless until it becomes a crippling addiction of nightmarish dimensions in this searing young adult novel from Newbery and National Book Award winner Cynthia Kadohata.Sixteen-year-old Elijah is pretty damn sick...