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Cynthia Kadohata is an American author of children's and young adult literature. She is best known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel Kira-Kira. She has also written several other novels, including Weedflower, The Thing About Luck, and Outside Beauty. Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Georgia and California. She attended the University of California, Irvine, where she earned a bachelor's degree in English. She then went on to earn a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Southern California. Kadohata has been writing since she was a child, and her first novel, Kira-Kira, was published in 2004. The novel won the Newbery Medal in 2005. Her other novels include Weedflower, The Thing About Luck, Outside Beauty, and The Floating World. Kadohata has also written several picture books, including A Million Shades of Gray, The Floating World, and The Thing About Luck. She has also written a non-fiction book, The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had. Kadohata currently lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and two children.

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Occupation Writer
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 2 July, 1956
Birthday 2 July
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2008

Outside Beauty, another children's novel, was published in 2008. It is about a 13-year-old girl and her three sisters, all fathered by different men and what happens when she and her sisters are separated from each other after their mother gets into an accident.

2006

Weedflower, her second children's book, was published in Spring 2006. It is about the Poston internment camp where her father was imprisoned during World War II. Her third children's novel, Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam about the Vietnam War from a war dog's perspective, was published in January 2007 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

1986

Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. She received a BA in journalism from the University of Southern California. She also attended graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University.

1956

Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956) is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the National Book Award in Young People's Literature in 2013 for The Thing About Luck.