Cynthia Kadohata, Author . S&S/Atheneum $15.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-689-85639-6
Set in the 1950s and '60s, Kadohata's moving first novel is narrated by a first-generation Japanese-American girl who moves with her family from Iowa to Georgia when their "Oriental foods grocery store" goes out of business. There,...
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Cynthia Kadohata, Author . S&S/Atheneum $16.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-689-86574-9
Set in America immediately before the attack on Pearl Harbor, this insightful novel by the Newbery-winning author of Kira-Kira
traces the experiences of a Japanese-American girl and her family. Sixth-grader Sumiko, the only Asian student in her...
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Cynthia Kadohata, Author . S&S/Atheneum $10.99 (312p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0637-7
The author of Weedflower
and Kira-Kira
takes readers back to the Vietnam War era in this meticulously researched story about a special friendship that develops between an American soldier and a dog. When 17-year-old Rick Hanski enlists in the army,
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Cynthia Kadohata, Author . S&S/Atheneum $16.99 (265p) ISBN 978-0-689-86575-6
Newbery Medalist Kadohata's (Kira-Kira
) gifts for creating and containing drama and for careful definition of character prove as powerful as ever in this wise, tender and compelling novel. Although the 12-year-old narrator, Shelby, and her...
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Cynthia Kadohata, Author . S&S/Atheneum $16.99 (216p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1883-7
Newbery Medalist Kadohata (Kira-Kira
) shows that truth has as many shades of gray as an elephant in this emotionally taut survival story, set in war-torn South Vietnam. After American troops leave his village, Y’Tin, his family, and his...
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Cynthia Kadohata, Author Viking Books $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-82680-3
In her first book, Kadohata works wonders in evoking the mysterious balance, imperfectly held, of a Japanese-American family drifting apprehensively during the 1950s in ``ukiyo ,'' a ``floating world'' of menial jobs and humble yet hopeful upward...
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Cynthia Kadohata, Author Viking Books $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-83415-0
Confirming the talent she demonstrated in her praised first novel, The Floating World , Kadohata's new book is a chilling vision of the 21st century, conceived with prescient imagination and rendered in lean, evocative prose that blossoms into...
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Cynthia Kadohata. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-442-41275-0
Romanian-born Jaden knows fear and anger but has trouble feeling love and trust. He was abandoned by his biological mother at age four, then shuttled to several foster homes before being adopted by an American couple. Now 12, Jaden thinks his...
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Cynthia Kadohata, illus. by Maurizio Zorat. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $16.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4814-4661-7
Conor MacRae may not be a stellar student, but the half-Japanese 11-year-old is a champ on the ice. Conor lives and breathes hockey, especially with imminent tryouts for the Grizzlies, a AAA team. When Conor’s pet Doberman gets cancer, he has to...
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Cynthia Kadohata, illus. by Julia Kuo. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4169-1882-0
Sharp characterizations and descriptive details about modern farming invigorate Newbery Medalist Kadohata’s (Kira-Kira) funny and warm story about the Japanese-American daughter of migrant workers. Twelve-year-old Summer’s family has suffered a year
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Cynthia Kadohata, Author, Kimberly Farr, Read by , read by Kimberly Farr. Listening Library $39 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3888-9
Since winning a Newbery medal for her World War II book, Kira-Kira
, Kadohata has ventured into the muddier world, literally and figuratively, of the Vietnam War (the “American War” to the Vietnamese). Cracker—bred as a show dog,
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Cynthia Kadohata, illus. by Julia Kuo. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $17.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4814-4664-8
With trademark faith in her protagonist’s resilience, Kadohata (Checked) depicts an ugly chapter of history through the eyes of 12-year-old Hanako, whose parents were coerced into renouncing their American citizenship in a U.S. internment camp...
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Cynthia Kadohata, illus. by Marianna Raskin. Atheneum/Dlouhy, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4424-1278-1
Eleven-year-old Becca, a quadruplet, believes herself a coward due to the way she treated a former friend. She also worries that she’s the only one of her siblings without a specific interest. Bailey, who uses a wheelchair, composes music; Jammer...
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