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Cynthia Kadohata

Born

in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

July 02, 1956

Website

http://www.kira-kira.us/

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Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American writer known for her insightful coming-of-age stories about Asian American women. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. As she spent her early childhood in the American South, the author set both her first adult novel and her first novel for children in Southern states. The former became a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the latter--her first children's book, entitled Kira-Kira--won the 2005 Newbery Medal. ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 53,734 ratings · 7,131 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Kira-Kira 3.97 avg rating — 28,070 ratings — published 2004 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam 4.26 avg rating — 6,815 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata, Julia Kuo (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.68 avg rating — 5,356 ratings — published 2013 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weedflower 3.92 avg rating — 4,911 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half a World Away 3.83 avg rating — 2,102 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place to Belong 4.05 avg rating — 1,573 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outside Beauty 3.61 avg rating — 1,322 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Million Shades of Gray 3.63 avg rating — 1,295 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Checked by Cynthia Kadohata, Maurizio Zorat (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 1,151 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saucy by Cynthia Kadohata, Marianna Raskin (Illustrator) 3.55 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira

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“The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira

tags: blue, japan, japanese, kirakira, life, nature, sky

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“It was hard to stay angry when I felt so sad. I would rather have felt angry, but instead, all I could do was sob. Even though people had been coming over all day, the house seemed so lonely that I couldn't stand it.
The room grew somewhat dimmer. I didn't move as it grew dimmer still. Then, with a start, I hurried outside and ran to the alley in back of our house. Through a break between the buildings, I saw that the sun hung low over the horizon. I watched it until it started to hide between two trees in the distance. Then I climbed on a car and watched until only half of the sun was visible, and then a quarter, and then I felt a huge sickening panic inside of me and ran as hard as I could to a ladder I saw down the alley. I rushed up the ladder and climbed on the roof of somebody's garage. I saw the sun again, a quarter of it, and then a slice, and then it disappeared, the last time ever that the sun would set on a day my sister had lived.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira

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Now that we have a Mock Newbery medal we can pick an honor book.

Which book would you choose to receive an honor award for our Mock Newbery?

Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

21 votes 22.8%

Doll Bones by Holly Black

20 votes 21.7%

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt

13 votes 14.1%

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

13 votes 14.1%

The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata

9 votes 9.8%

Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

6 votes 6.5%

The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes

5 votes 5.4%

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo

5 votes 5.4%

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