The Thing About Luck
By Cynthia Kadohata
Illustrators
Illustrated by Julia Kuo
Edition
By Cynthia Kadohata
Hardcover edition
Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Atheneum ISBN9781416918820
Awards and Honors Amazon.com Best Books of the Year 2013: Ages 9-12: Middle Graders; Booklist 2013 Lasting Connections, Language Arts; Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013, Children’s Fiction; National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, 2013 Winner; Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Books of 2013; Booklist Editor’s Choice: Books for Youth, 2013, Fiction; Horn Book Fanfare, Best Books of 2013, Fiction; VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers 2013The Thing About Luck
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Summer is helping her grandmother, Obaachan, cook for the workers during the wheat harvest. Then her grandfather, Jiichan, a combine driver, gets sick. Black-and-white illustrations.
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