Cynthia Kadohata
1) Kira-kira
Author
Language
English
Formats
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
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
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.
3) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
4) Checked
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
To help his dog through cancer treatment, Conor gives up hockey and finds himself considering who he is without the sport that has defined him, and connecting more with his family and best friend.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
