Cynthia Kadohata
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born
January 01, 1956
in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
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female
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Kira-Kira   3.84 avg rating — 5,834 ratings
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2004
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Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam 4.24 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Weedflower 3.91 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
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Outside Beauty 3.44 avg rating — 482 ratings
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2008
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A Million Shades of Gray 3.45 avg rating — 289 ratings
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2009
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The Floating World 3.45 avg rating — 47 ratings
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1989
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In the Heart of the Valley of Love 3.12 avg rating — 48 ratings
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1992
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The Glass Mountains 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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1995
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Kira - Kira by Cynthia Kadohata, Elaina Erika Davis 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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2005
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Kira-Kira, Grades 5-6 [With 3 Overhead Transparencies] by Cynthia Kadohata, Nat Reed 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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2009
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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
― Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
“I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
― Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
“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
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
Polls
Please vote for the award winning book you would like to read during July.
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (2009 Aurealis Awards)
Looking for Alaska by John Green (Printz Award 2006)
A Wrinkle in Time byMadeleine L'Engle (Newberry Meda, 1963)
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Newberry and Printz 2003)
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Winner & National Book Award Finalist 2009)
Savvy by Ingrid Law (Newberry Medal 2009)
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Newberry Award 1978)
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Newberry Medal 2005)
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Newberry Medal 2000)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Newberry Honour award 2010)
The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Newberry 1969)
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newberry Award 2009)
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (Printz 2004)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Newbery 1977)
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Newberry Medal 2006)
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