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.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Elizabeth FinchF KADBook31459000202326Fiction