# The Thing About Luck

**Author:** Cynthia Kadohata
**Grade range:** Grades 5–8
**First published:** 2014
**Page count:** 304
**ISBN-13:** `9781442474659`
**ISBN-10:** `1442474653`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-thing-about-luck
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

There is bad luck, good luck, and making one's own luckNwhich is exactly what Summer must do to save her family in this National Book Award-winning novel by Newbery Medalist Kadohata ("Kira-Kira"). Illustrations.

## Where this book is assigned

### National Book Award for Young People's Literature

- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2013 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2013 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2013 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners (National Book Foundation), via Wikipedia — 2013 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Young_People%27s_Literature)

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