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Kira-Kira

Kira-Kira

Kadohata, Cynthia

Hardcover

FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0689856393
ISBN13: 9780689856396
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: Feb 1 2004
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.36 Depth: 7.74
Language: English
Awards: Colorado Blue Spruce Award, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, Nene Award, Nene Award, Nene Award, Newbery Medal, Young Reader's Choice Award
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.

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