[novel] Kita kira
Kira-Kira is a young adult novel by Cynthia Kadohata. It won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 2005. The book's plot is about a Japanese-American family living in Georgia. The main character and narrator of the story is a girl named Katie, a member of the Japanese-American family. "Kira-kira" (きら きら in hiragana) means sparkling, glittering, or shiny.
You learn, at the beginning of the story, that Lynn taught Katie the word Kira-kira and she uses it to describe everything. Her older sister Lynn (whom she calls Lynnie), and their parents are living in Iowa and own an Asian foods store. When the store goes out of business, the family moves to an apartment home in Georgia where Katie's parents can work at a hatchery with six other Japanese families. Lynnie is Katie's best friend who was known for being remarkably intelligent--she can beat her Uncle Katsuhisa, a chess grand master, at his own game.



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