Kira-Kira

Title:

Kira-Kira

Personal Author EPSB:

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.

Awards:

Newbery Medal, 2005

Subject:

Sisters -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Japanese Americans -- Fiction.

Death -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

ISBN:

9780689856402

Publisher:

New York, N.Y. ; London : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.

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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.