Cynthia Kadohata is the author of the National Book Award winner The Thing About Luck, the Newbery Medal-winning book Kira-Kira, the Jane
There is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck — which is exactly what Summer must do to save her family in this winner of the National Book Award by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata.
Eleven-year-old Jaden is adopted, and he knows he's an "epic fail." That's why his family is traveling to Kazakhstan to adopt a new baby -- to replace him, he's sure. And he gets it.
Eleven-year-old Y'Tin is the youngest elephant trainer in his village. When the Vietcong invades, Y'Tin and his friend Y'Juen flee into the jungle where they care for a beloved elephant and search for relatives who survived the attack.
Sumiko and her family are shipped to a Japanese internment camp in one of the hottest places in California after the events of Pearl Harbor.