Books by Cynthia Kadohata
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review 1: Great, quick read about a 12-year-old girl and her relationships with her hard-working immigrant grandparents and (autistic?) younger brother during wheat-harvesting season. I learned a lot about Japanese-American culture and wheat harvesting, both of which were more interesting ...
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review 1: This is a terrible book. It is plain boring. The narrator's tone is flat. There is no suspense. The characters are forgettable. Even the protagonist has no special characteristics. Everything is predictable. So main character's whole world was torned apart because of the war and ...
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review 1: I simply could not put this book down once I started it and read it all in one day. I fell in love with the charachters and the message. This is a book about family--what it really takes to become one. It isn't as simple as sharing genes. It's about love, respect, and underst...
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review 1: This is a very good book, but it is difficult to really say I liked it simply because the subject matter, the Vietnam War and after once the Americans left the people to fend for themselves against the Vietcong, is so hard to read. I liked the story, but the setting is, at best,...
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review 1: I wavered between giving this 2 or 3 stars. I have really enjoyed other books by Newbery Award-winning author Cynthia Kadohata, but this one was a bit of a struggle. My main problem was with the main character Jaden. I kept wanting to have more empathy for him, but I found him...