The Thing about Luck by Cynthia Kadohata

The Thing about Luck by Cynthia Kadohata

The winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, from Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata. There is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck--which is exactly what Summer must do to save her family.

Summer knows that kouun means good luck in Japanese, and this year her family has none of it. Just when she thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong, an emergency whisks her parents away to Japan--right before harvest season. Summer and her little brother, Jaz, are left in the care of their grandparents, who come out of retirement in order to harvest wheat and help pay the bills.

The thing about Obaachan and Jiichan is that they are old-fashioned and demanding, and between helping Obaachan cook for the workers, covering for her when her back pain worsens, and worrying about her lonely little brother, Summer just barely has time to notice the attentions of their boss's cute son. But notice she does, and what begins as a welcome distraction from the hard work soon turns into a mess of its own.

Having thoroughly disappointed her grandmother, Summer figures the bad luck must be finished--but then it gets worse. And when that happens, Summer has to figure out how to change it herself, even if it means further displeasing Obaachan. Because it might be the only way to save her family.

Cynthia Kadohata's ode to the breadbasket of America has received six starred reviews and was selected as a National Book Award Finalist.

Cynthia Kadohata has been writing since 1982. When she was twenty-five and completely directionless, she took a Greyhound bus trip up the West Coast, and then down through the South and Southwest. She met people she never would have met otherwise. It was during that bus trip, which lasted a month, that she rediscovered in the landscape the magic she'd known as a child. Though she had never considered writing fiction before, the next year she decided to begin. She sent one story out every month, and about forty-eight stories later, the New Yorker took one. She now lives in California. Kadohata's first novel, The Floating World, was a New York Times Notable Book of the year. Her first children's novel, Kita-Kira, won the 2005 Newbery Medal. Kadohata's website is Kira-Kira.us.

SKU	CIN1416918825VG
ISBN 13	9781416918820
ISBN 10	1416918825
Title	The Thing about Luck
Author	Cynthia Kadohata
Condition	Very Good
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Year published	2013-06-04
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Winner of National Book Awards (Young People's Lit.) 2013, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Ten to Fourteen) 2014, Commended for Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) (Fiction) 2013, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2015, Short-listed for Keystone to Reading Book Award (Middle School) 2015, Short-listed for Volunteer State Book Awards (Middle School) 2015, Short-listed for Sasquatch Award 2016, Short-listed for Land of Enchantment Book Award (Children's) 2014, Short-listed for Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award 2015
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