Kira-kira, Cynthia Kadohata
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Kira-kira, Cynthia Kadohata
Language
eng
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fiction
Main title
Kira-kira
Oclc number
58544008
Responsibility statement
Cynthia Kadohata
Summary
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. 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
Target audience
juvenile
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Kira kira
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- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Audiobooks
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Death -- Fiction
- Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Japanese Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Japanese Americans -- Fiction
- Death -- Juvenile fiction
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- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Audiobooks
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Death -- Fiction
- Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Japanese Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Japanese Americans -- Fiction
- Death -- Juvenile fiction
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