Cynthia Kadohata
1) Saucy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Becca, a quadruplet, finds a sick piglet on the side of the road, her life is changed forever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) Checked
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
7) Kira-Kira
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining
Glittering. That’s how Katie Takeshima’s sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people’s eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it’s Lynn who explains to her...
Glittering. That’s how Katie Takeshima’s sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people’s eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it’s Lynn who explains to her...
8) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to.
Now, other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies for the emperor and Sumiko and her family find...
Now, other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies for the emperor and Sumiko and her family find...