Research Catalog
Kira-kira
- Title
- Kira-kira / Cynthia Kadohata.
- Author
- Kadohata, Cynthia
- Publication
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- 244 pages; 19 cm
- 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. Luminous in its persistence of love and hope, Kira-Kira is Cynthia Kadohata's stunning debut in middle-grade fiction.
- Subjects
- Georgia
- Friendship
- Death
- Friendship > Fiction
- Fiction
- Georgia > History > 20th century > Fiction
- Sisters > Fiction
- 1900-1999
- History
- Japanese Americans > Fiction
- Death > Juvenile fiction
- Friendship > Juvenile fiction
- Japanese Americans > Juvenile fiction
- Sisters > Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile works
- Death > Fiction
- Georgia > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Audience (note)
- 740L
- Study Program (note)
- Accelerated Reader AR
- Reading Counts RC
- Awards (note)
- Newbery Medal, 2005
- Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Honor, 2004
- Call Number
- JFC 05-441
- ISBN
- 0689856393
- 9780689856396
- LCCN
- 2003000737
- 9780689856396
- OCLC
- 51861752
- Author
- Kadohata, Cynthia, author.
- Title
- Kira-kira / Cynthia Kadohata.
- Publisher
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- 740L Lexile.
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 7.0 74071.12.0 Reading Counts RC 6-8 4.5 36214.Accelerated Reader MG 4.7 7.0 74071.
- Awards
- Newbery Medal, 2005Asian/Pacific American Literature Award Honor, 2004
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780689856396
- Research Call Number
- JFC 05-441J FIC K