Cynthia Kadohata

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.

Rick Hanski, a young soldier in Vietnam, bonds with Cracker, his bomb-sniffing dog.

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.

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.

Reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps during World War II, a Japanese-American family renounces its American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb in this piercing novel by the Newbery Medal-winning author of "Kira-Kira". Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima,...

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.