Kadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: In 1975 after American troops pull out of Vietnam, a thirteen-year-old boy and his beloved elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION KADOHATAKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION KADOHATAKadohata, Cynthia
Summary: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION KADOHATAKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION KADOHATAKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION KADOHATAKadohata, Cynthia.
Summary: Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013