The Thing About Luck

About the Authors

CYNTHIA KADOHATA actually rode a 30,000-pound combine to write this novel. She is the author of the Newbery Medal—winning Kira-Kira; Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam; Weedflower, which won the 2007 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children’s Literature and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for Older Children; Outside Beauty; A Million Shades of Gray; and several critically acclaimed adult novels, including The Floating World. She lives with her son and two dogs in Covina, California.