Cynthia Kadohata
1) Kira-Kira
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
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 (Kira-Kira) and the National Book Award (The Thing About Luck).
Eleven-year-old Jaden is adopted, and he knows he's an "epic fail." That's why his family is traveling to Kazakhstan to adopt a new baby—to replace him, he's sure. And he gets it....
Eleven-year-old Jaden is adopted, and he knows he's an "epic fail." That's why his family is traveling to Kazakhstan to adopt a new baby—to replace him, he's sure. And he gets it....
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
7) Saucy
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Becca, a quadruplet, finds a sick piglet on the side of the road, her life is changed forever.
8) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
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 other kids tease her, she always has 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...
Now, other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies for the emperor and Sumiko and her family find...