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  Title

  Kira-kira First edition.

  Author

  Kadohata, Cynthia,  

  Publisher:

  Atheneum Books for Young Readers,

  Pub date:

  2004.

  Pages:

  244 pages ;

  ISBN:

  0689856393

  Item info:

  3 copies available at Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield Woods Branch Library, and Pequot Library.
  

  • 0689856393
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    Fairfield Public Library	Copies	Material Type	Current Location
    C FICTION KADOHATA	1	Book	Children's Reading Room
    Fairfield Woods Branch Library	Copies	Material Type	Current Location
    C FICTION KADOHATA	1	Book	Woods Children's Room
    Pequot Library	Copies	Material Type	Current Location
    YA FIC KAD	1	Book	Standard shelving location - Pequot

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  Kira-kira First edition.
  Kadohata, Cynthia,
  

  Personal Author:

  Kadohata, Cynthia,

  Title:

  Kira-kira / Cynthia Kadohata.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Physical description:

  244 pages ; 19 cm

  Series Statement:

  (Newbery Award Winer)

  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.

  Held by:

  FFLD-MAIN FFLD-WOODS PEQUOT

  Bulletin heading:

  NEWBERY

  Subject term:

  Newbery Medal--2005.

  Subject term:

  Sisters--Juvenile fiction.

  Subject term:

  Friendship--Juvenile fiction.

  Subject term:

  Japanese Americans--Juvenile fiction.

  Subject term:

  Death--Juvenile fiction.

  Geographic term:

  Georgia--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.