Kadohata, Cynthia
Currently alive, at 52 years of age.
Nationality: Japanese
Categories: Authors, Writers
1956 – She was born this year in Chicago, Illinois. She spent her early childhood in the South; both her first adult novel and first children's novel take place in Southern states. She’s a high school drop-out. BA in journalism from the University of Southern California; attended graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University.
1986 - Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in this year.
2005 - Her first adult novel was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her first children's book, Kira-Kira, won this year’s Newbery Medal.
2006 – Her second children's book “Weed flower” was published in the spring of this year.
2007 - Her third children's novel, about the Vietnam War from a war dog's perspective, was published in January of this year by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. She has three more children's books scheduled to be published by Atheneum.
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Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Paperback - Dec 26, 2006) In Cynthia Kadohata's lively, lovely, funny and sad novel -- winner of the 2005 Newbery Medal -- the Japanese-American Takeshima family moves from Iowa to Georgia in the 1950s when Katie, the...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata (Hardcover - Feb 6, 2007) CRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS:a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell....  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata (Hardcover - Mar 28, 2006) 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...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Outside Beauty by Cynthia Kadohata (Hardcover - Jun 3, 2008) "My mother had four daughters by four different men."There's only one way Shelby and her sisters can describe their mother: She's a sexpot. Helen Kimura collects men (and loans, spending money, and... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata (Paperback - Mar 23, 1993) A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year. "Magical...THE FLOATING WORLD is about families, coming of age, guilt, memory...It is also about being Japanese-American in the United States in the 1950's... |
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In the Heart of the Valley of Love (California Fiction) by Cynthia Kadohata (Paperback - Apr 14, 1997) Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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