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The thing about luck / Cynthia Kadohata ; illustrated by Julia Kuo.

Kadohata, Cynthia, (author.). Kuo, Julia, (illustrator.). Kuo, Julia. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781416918820
  • Physical Description: 269 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York ; Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2013]

Content descriptions

Citation/References Note:
Junior Library Guild
Target Audience Note:
10-12.
5-7.
700L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 7 160447.
Awards Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection
National Book award

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Subject:
Siblings > Juvenile fiction.
Farm life > Kansas > Juvenile fiction.
Fortune > Juvenile fiction.
Grandparents > Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Siblings.
Grandparents.
Kansas > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.

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  • 29 of 30 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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