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Cynthia Kadohata


USA flag (b.1957)

Cynthia Kadohata has lived in Chicago, Georgia, Arkansas, Michigan, Los Angeles, Boston, Pittsburgh, and New York City. She has worked as a waitress, sales clerk, typist, publicist, and secretary. She's back to Los Angeles now, probably permanently, and lives with George, her boyfriend of fifteen years; Sammy, her much-loved son; and two very funny and probably insane dogs. She has published three novels for grown-ups, and her writing has appeared in Grand Street, the Mississippi Review, The New Yorker, and Ploughshares. Her first children's novel, Kira-Kira, won the Newbery Medal in 2005. She has also published the children's books Weedflower, winner of the Pen-USA; Cracker, winner of six state awards as voted on by kids; Outside Beauty; A Million Shades of Gray; and The Thing About Luck, winner of the 2013 National Book Award. Her next novel is Half a World Away, due out September 2, 2014. Half a World Away is the tale of a troubled young boy who was adopted from Romania at age eight and whose parents are adopting a baby from Kazakhstan.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
June 2024

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Novels
   The Floating World (1989)
   In The Heart Of The Valley Of Love (1992)
   The Glass Mountains (1995)
   Kira-Kira (2004)
   Weedflower (2006)
   Cracker! (2007)
   Outside Beauty (2008)
   A Million Shades of Gray (2009)
     aka A Million Shades of Grey
   The Thing About Luck (2013)
   Half a World Away (2014)
   Checked (2018)
   A Place to Belong (2019)
   Saucy (2020)
   Vape (2024)
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Cynthia Kadohata recommends
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The Elephant in the Room (2021)
Holly Goldberg Sloan
"A gorgeous and emotional novel. I loved every page."

Anthologies containing stories by Cynthia Kadohata
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Charlie Chan Is Dead (1993)
An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
(Charlie Chan Is Dead, book 1)
edited by
Jessica Hagedorn
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The Literary Ghost (1991)
Great Contemporary Ghost Stories
edited by
Larry Dark

Awards
Newbery Medal Best Novel winner (2005) : Kira-Kira


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