It is about the Poston internment camp where her father was imprisoned during World War II. Weedflower, her second children's book, was published in Spring 2006. Later stories were published in The Pennsylvania Review, Grand Street, and Ploughshares. Her first publication, titled Charlie O., was published in 1986 in The New Yorker. Kadohata started her writing career with short story submissions to magazines. She also attended graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University. She received a BA in journalism from the University of Southern California in 1979. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2013 for The Thing About Luck. Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956) is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in 2005.
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