Kadohata, Cynthia

Kira-kira / Cynthia Kadohata. - New York : Scholastic, Inc., c2004. - 244 p. ; 19 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0439799414 (hc)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sisters--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Georgia--History--20th century--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.K1166 / Ki 2005