Loved this one
#TemptingTitles Day 27: #WithLuck - received this review copy from my favourite distributor in Singapore when I still lived there - one of the many things I so deeply miss living there - the free books and the many gorgeous libraries. More freebies here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-bdm
Asian/Pacific American Award. The is a story about a Japanese-American girl who is working in Texas to provide for her family. She comes across many obstacles along the way that change her outlook on some things. The story follows her as she grows, matures, and learns as a person who is providing for her and her family.
Asian/Pacific American Award
June 3rd, 2014
This book is all about the good and back luck in life and how sometimes you must make your own luck which is what the main character of this book must do to help her family.
The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata and Julia Kuo was published in 2013. This is a great book for older ages but can also be a read aloud for younger students. This book has won the Asian/Pacific Book Award. It is about a girl names Summer who has to learn that you make your own luck as she tries to save her family. Great read!
The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata and illustrated by Julia Kuo was published on January 4th, 2013. This book is a fictional story and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. This book follows a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl who, over the course of a season of hard work with her difficult family, comes to a greater understanding of herself, her family, and its heritage, and her relationships.
This book is about a young twelve year old Japanese-American girl over the course of the season of hard work and dedicating herself but deals with struggles of life. She then learns how important family is along the way she has a greater understanding of herself and learns the importance of her families heritage. She realizes just how important family, heritage and relationships are.