Cynthia Kadohata

Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it....

Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem....

A Japanese American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese imprisonment camps, gives up their American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb....

Cracker is one of the United States Army's most valuable weapons: a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy....

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....

Summer knows that kouun means good luck in Japanese, and this year her family has none of it....

From Newbery Medalist and National Book Award-winning author Cynthia Kadohata comes an irrepressible and heartwarming story about a girl and her ever-growing pig, Saucy - perfect for fans of The One and Only Ivan and Flora & Ulysses....

A boy and his elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village immediately after the Vietnam war.....

A kid who considers himself an epic fail discovers the transformative power of love when he deals with adoption....

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.

There's only one way Shelby and her sisters can describe their mother: she's a sexpot....

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