Kira-Kira (Newbery Medal Book)

Author: Kadohata, Cynthia

Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Edition: First Edition

Number Of Pages: 256

Details: 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. Luminous in its persistence of love and hope, Kira-Kira is Cynthia Kadohata's stunning debut in middle-grade fiction.

EAN: 9780689856396

Release Date: 01-02-2004

Languages: English

Item Note: This is a former school library book and there are some name stamps on the page edges and inside the book. There is a card sleeve on the 1st page.

Item Condition: UsedAcceptable

Binding: Hardcover

PartNumber: FBA-|300481