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Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Paperback)

Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Paperback)


by Kadohata, Cynthia
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    Kira-Kira is a touching story about a young Japanese girl's outlook on life as tough challenges come her way. Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Kadohata brings a sense of security after tomorrow with seeing the glittering aspect of things.
 
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Dreamy, imaginative, and fearlessly observant, Lynn is a golden combination of older sister, best friend, and personal hero for Katie. The younger Katie's earliest word, "kira-kira," meaning "glittering" in Japanese, is Lynn`s favorite, and the source of many discussions about what--the sea, sky, and eyes, especially--best merits this treasured adjective. Even with the loss of the family store, moving to a hostile place for Japanese-Americans in the 1950s, the Takeshima sisters remained exceptionally close. With both parents working grueling hours at the bleak, oppressive poultry plant, Katie must care for Lynn when she begins a long, distressing fight with lymphoma. As Katie struggles to remain buoyant in a wash of sadness, the notion of "kira-kira" becomes more important than ever. Winner of the 2005 Newbery Medal.

Author:
Kadohata, Cynthia
ISBN:
9780689856402
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
244
Publish Date:
12/26/2006
Publisher:
Atheneum
Language:
English

Portions copyright 2005 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

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      This book is awesome! I had to read it for a book report and I read it 2-3 times before actually doing the writing part :)!!! Read this book and you won't regret it!!!!!!!!!!!! I promise :)!!!!!!!!!

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  • Starred ReviewSet in the 1950s and '60s," Kadohata's moving first novel is narrated by a first-generation Japanese-American girl who moves with her family from Iowa to Georgia when their """"Oriental foods grocery store"""" goes out of business. There", Katie and her family face hardships, including discrimination (she is ignored by the girls at school, for example)," and the harsh conditions at the poultry plant where her mother works (""""thugs"""" make sure workers do not gather so that they cannot organize). Katie's father often sleeps at the hatchery between shifts", and when their babysitter goes away, Katie and her brother must stay in the hot car outside the plant while their mother works. But it's her doting older sister Lynn's struggle with lymphoma that really tests her family. Katie's narrative begins almost as stream-of-consciousness, reflecting a younger child's way of seeing the world. But as she matures through the challenges her family faces, so does the prose. Kadohata movingly captures the family's sustaining love-Lynn and Katie secretly save their treat money for years so they can help their parents buy a house, and when ailing Lynn gets to pick the house, she chooses a sky blue one," because Katie as a """"little girl","... had told her [she] wanted our first to be sky blue."""" The family's devotion to one another"," and Lynn's ability to teach Katie to appreciate the """"kira-kira", or glittering, in everyday life makes this novel shine. Ages 11-up. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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