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Item Nr: B 104097 Title: Kira-Kira
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Kadohata, Cynthia
Length: 244 Prod/Pub: Atheneum
Copyright: 2004 Series:
Book Type: F Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  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. Newbery Award 2005. AR 4.7. Follett RL 4.9. RC 5.8. Lexile 740. GR level X.

  Subjects:
  1325 - ASIAN AMERICANS
  383 - DEATH
  1433 - DIVERSITY
  488 - FAMILY
  534 - FRIENDSHIP
  1544 - GUIDED READING LEVEL X
  591 - HISTORICAL FICTION
  1881 - Japanese Americans
  1677 - LEXILE 700-799
  770 - MULTICULTURAL/MULTICULTURALISM
  1351 - NEWBERY
  1823 - SIX TRAITS: VOICE