Kadohata, Cynthia.

The thing about luck / Cynthia Kadohata ; illustrated by Julia Kuo. - 1st Atheneum Books for Young Readers pbk. ed. - New York ; Toronto : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014, c2013. - 269 p. : ill.

Includes a reading group guide.

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 for harvest workers.

"Ages 10-14"--P. [4] of cover.

National Book Award winner

ISBN: 1442474653 (pbk.) 9781442474659 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2012021287

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Farm life--Kansas--Juvenile fiction.
Grandparents--Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Fortune--Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Kansas--Juvenile fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.K1166 / Thi 2013

Dewey Class. No.: FIC