Kira-Kira / Cynthia Kadohata.
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TextPublication details: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: 244 p. ; 19 cmISBN: - 0689856393 :
- Newbery Medal, 2005
- A Junior Library Guild selection.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Japanese-American family struggles to build a new life in the Deep South of Georgia in this luminous novel, winner of the Newbery Medal.
kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining
Glittering . That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- kira-kira -- in the future.
Luminous in its persistence of love and hope, Kira-Kira is Cynthia Kadohata's stunning debut in middle-grade fiction.
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Ages 11 up.
Newbery Medal, 2005
A Junior Library Guild selection.