Kira-Kira

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244 pages

English language

Published Jan. 21, 2004 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

ISBN:
978-0-689-85639-6
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4 stars (4 reviews)

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.

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reviewed Kira-Kira. by Cynthia Kadohata

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5 stars

I just loved this. I am reading lots more YAF and Juvenile Fiction these days, and this was a gem. The point of view of the little sister was pitch perfect, and seeing her family's life through her eyes was the ultimate example of "show, don't tell." It could have turned maudlin but it didn't. It could have been preachy but it wasn't.

It was an important story, beautifully told.

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Subjects

  • Sisters -- Fiction.
  • Friendship -- Fiction.
  • Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
  • Death -- Fiction.
  • Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.