Kira - Kira
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780307281869 (0307281868)
Publish date: April 12th 2005
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Edition language: English
One of the better Newberry Award books I've read so far this year. I'm honestly getting a bit bored by them. They're all very similar and seem to have the same agenda, which is a bit annoying. But, I'm still going to try and read them all by January - listening to them makes them a little more enjoy...
The story was predictable, but honestly that doesn't matter. It's a simple story but a powerful one. One of the morals of the story is to look for something "Kira-Kira", or "glittering" in everything. And that's a pretty great moral. I don't have a sister, so I can't personally relate to Katie and L...
My sister, Lynn, taught me my first word: kira-kira. I pronounced it ka-a-ahhh, but she knew what I meant. Kira-kira means "glittering" in Japanese. Lynn told me that when I was a baby, she used to take me onto our empty road at night, where we would lie on our backs and look at the stars while she ...
A sweet, tender story about a Japanese family that migrated south during the 1950s. I know it was a Newbery winner, but it did not "stand out." A girl deals with her sister's terminal illness during a very racist time in America. Yet, I felt the premise had been done before. The only thing that grab...
I had to read this book because it was a Newberry book, so it had to be great, right? I was anticipating greatness but I thought it fell short. Why? I thought there was no depth to the characters and I felt like I was on a fast track moving through their lives. I also felt like I just witnessed the ...
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