Kadohata, Cynthia. Call No : S-KAD
Kira-Kira / Cynthia Kadohata.-- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2004.
244 p. ; 20 cm.
Summary: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s, and the despair felt when one sister becomes terminally ill.
ISBN 0689856393 : US$16.95
1. Sisters--Fiction. 2. Friendship--Fiction. 3. Japanese in the United States--Fiction. 4. Death--Fiction. 5. Georgia--History--20th century--Fiction.
Kira-Kira / Cynthia Kadohata.-- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2004.
244 p. ; 20 cm.
Summary: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s, and the despair felt when one sister becomes terminally ill.
ISBN 0689856393 : US$16.95
1. Sisters--Fiction. 2. Friendship--Fiction. 3. Japanese in the United States--Fiction. 4. Death--Fiction. 5. Georgia--History--20th century--Fiction.
Kira-Kira is the winner of the 2005 Newbery Medal. Although this book has been classified as middle grade, I recommend this heart-warming story of a close-knit family with all the remarkable values of love, respect and honour, to people of any age.
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