Kira-Kira
Title
:
Kira-Kira
Personal Author EPSB
:
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.
Year Published
:
2006
2006,
2004
Physical Description
:
244 pages ; 20 cm
Edition
:
First paperback edition.
Note
:
Includes a reading group guide and an excerpt from: The thing about luck.
Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©2004.
Awards
:
Newbery Medal, 2005
Subject
:
Sisters -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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.
ISBN
:
9780689856402
Publisher
:
New York, N.Y. ; London : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Elizabeth Finch | F KAD | Book | 31459000202326 | Fiction |