TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kadohata,Cynthia
TI  - Kira-kira
SN  - 0689856393
AV  - YA PZ 7 .K1166 Ki 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Japanese Americans
KW  - Death
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Newbery Medal
KW  - Georgia
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Juvenile materials
KW  - local
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon053/20030007 37.html
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