Kira-Kira
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Kira-Kira
AUTHOR:
Kadohata, Cynthia.
ISBN:
9780689856402
EDITION:
1st pbk. ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
244 p. ; 20 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©2004.
ABSTRACT:
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.
READING_LEVEL3:
Ages 10-14.
SUBJECT:
| Sisters -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Friendship -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Japanese Americans -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Death -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.