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.

Other Title
Kira kira

Year Published
2004

Physical Description
244 p. ; 19 cm.

Edition
1st ed.

Reading Grade level
hen one sister becomes terminally ill.

Grade Interest level
7-10

Program Information
Accelerated Reader MG 4.7 7.0 74071
 
YRCA 2007 - Intermediate Division

Awards
Newbery Award, 2005

Subject
Sisters -- Fiction.
 
Friendship -- Fiction.
 
Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
 
Death -- Fiction.
 
Japanese American -- Fiction
 
Death -- Fiction
 
Friendship - Fiction
 
Georgia - History - 20th Century - Fiction
 
Sisters - 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
9780689856396

Publisher
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2004.


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George P. NicholsonYA KADBook31004000115530Teen
George P. NicholsonYA KADBook31004000167861Teen