Cynthia Kadohata
1) Weedflower
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
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.
3) Kira-Kira
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
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
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.
7) Checked
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hockey is Conor's life. His whole life. He'll say it himself, he's a hockey beast. It's his dad's whole life too--and Conor is sure that's why his stepmom, Jenny, left. There are very few things Conor and his dad love more than the game, and one of those things is their Doberman, Sinbad. When Sinbad is diagnosed with cancer, Conor chooses to put his hockey lessons and practices on hold so they can pay for Sinbad's chemotherapy. But without hockey...
8) Saucy
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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.