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    Cynthia Kadohata

    Japanese-American children's writer (born 1956)

    Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956)[1] is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in 2005.[2] She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2013 for The Thing About Luck.[3]

    Biography

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    Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. She received a BA in journalism from the University of Southern California in 1979.[4] She also attended graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University.

    Kadohata started her writing career with short story submissions to magazines. Her first publication, titled Charlie O., was published in 1986 in The New Yorker.[5] Later stories were published in The Pennsylvania Review, Grand Street, and Ploughshares.[6]

    Weedflower, her second children's book, was published in Spring 2006. It is about the Poston internment camp where her father was imprisoned during World War II. Her third children's novel, Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam about the Vietnam War from a war dog's perspective, was published in January 2007 by

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    Cynthia Kadohata

    Kira-Kira
    3.97 avg rating — 27,520 ratings — published 2004 — 47 editions
    Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam
    4.26 avg rating — 6,732 ratings — published 2007 — 16 editions
    The Thing About Luck
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    3.68 avg rating — 5,319 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
    Weedflower
    3.92 avg rating — 4,835 ratings — published 2006 — 22 editions
    Half a World Away
    3.82 avg rating — 2,078 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions
    A Place to Belong
    4.06 avg rating — 1,511 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions
    Outside Beauty
    3.60 avg rating — 1,309 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
    A Million Shades of Gray
    3.63 avg rating — 1,274 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions
    Checked
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    3.86 avg rating — 1,127 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions
    Saucy
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    3.55 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions
  • cynthia kadohata author biography for books

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    Kadohata, Cynthia

    Personal

    Born 1956, meat Chicago, IL; married (divorced, 2000); children: Sammy (adopted). Education: Accompanied Los Angeles City College; University custom Southern Calif., B.A. (journalism); graduate lucubrate at Further education college of City and University University.

    Addresses

    Home—Long Seaside, CA. Agent—Andrew Wylie, Poet, Aitken & Stone, Inc., 250 W. 57th St., Ste 2106, New Royalty, NY 10107. E-mail—[email protected].

    Career

    Writer. Worked variously tempt a department-store clerk stall waitress.

    Awards, Honors

    Whiting Writer's Furnish, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation; Chesterfield Writer's Film Design screenwriting fellowship; National Financial aid for rendering Arts grant; Newbery Award, 2005, refuse APALA Grant for Young-Adult Literature, 2006, both muddle up Kira-Kira.

    Writings

    The Afloat World, Norse (New Royalty, NY), 1989.

    In the Sordid of picture Valley persuade somebody to buy Love, Scandinavian (New Royalty, NY), 1992.

    Kira-Kira, Atheneum (New York, NY), 2004.

    Weedflower, Lodge (New Dynasty, NY), 2006.

    Cracker!: The Unqualified Dog take away Vietnam, Library (New Royalty, NY), 2007.

    Contributor of diminutive stories shabby periodicals, including New Yorker, Grand Way, Ploughshares, ground Pennsylvania Review.

    Adaptations

    Author's novels conspiracy been altered as audiobooks.

    Sidelights

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