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Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kadohata, Cynthia
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2014]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Adoption > Juvenile fiction. Intercountry adoption > Juvenile fiction. Emotional problems of children > Juvenile fiction. Abandoned children > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
Physical Description:	225 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9781442412750 (hbk.) 1442412755 (hbk.) 9781442412774 (ebk.) 1442412771 (ebk.)
Author Notes:	Cynthia Kadohata was born on July 2, 1956. She is a Japanese American author of children's books. Kadohata won the Newbery Medal in 2005 for her title, Kira-Kira. She also won a PEN award in 2006 for Weedflower and in 2013 she won the U.S. National Book Award for The Thing About Luck. Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was a high school drop out. She attained a BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California and went on to attend graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University. (Bowker Author Biography)