Cynthia Kadohata
 Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2 1956) is a Japanese American children's writer known best for winning the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the U.S. National Book Award in 2013.Kadohata was born in Chicago Illinois. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986.Weedflower her second children's book was published in Spring 2006. It is about the Poston internment camp where her father was imprisoned during World War II.