Good Writer - Cynthia Kadohata - Historical Fiction

Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American children's writer best known for historical fiction books. Her young adult novel “Kira-Kira” won the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the National Book Award in Young People's Literature in 2013 for “The Thing About Luck.”

Kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata

NOVELS

The Floating World (Viking, 1989)

In the Heart of the Valley of Love (Viking, 1992)

The Glass Mountains (Clarkston, GA, White Wolf Pub, 1995)

Kira-Kira (Atheneum, 2004)

Weedflower (Atheneum, 2006)

Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam (Atheneum, 2007)

Outside Beauty (Atheneum, 2008)

A Million Shades of Gray (Atheneum, 2010)

The Thing About Luck (Atheneum, 2013), illustrated by Julia Kuo

Half a World Away (Atheneum, 2014)

Checked (Atheneum, 2018)

Basia's favorite historical fiction by Cynthia Kadohata, 2018

Check the author’s web

https://www.cynthiakadohata.com/