02380cim a2200457 i 4500 1148914899 TxAuBib 20240222120000.0 d 050504|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307281869 0307281868 9780307281890 0307281892 9780307281869 YA 681A Random House/Listening Library (OCoLC)60222571 TxAuBib rda Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira-kira [Audio Books] / Cynthia Kadohata. New York : Random House/Listening Library, ℗2005. 4 audio discs (approximately 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. spw rdacontent s rdamedia sd rdacarrier Unabridged. Compact disc. Executive producer: Dan Zitt ; producer: David Rapkin. Read by Elaina Erika Davis. 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. kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- kira-kira -- in the future. 20240222. Sisters Juvenile fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Japanese Americans Juvenile fiction. Death Juvenile fiction. Georgia History 20th century Juvenile fiction. Compact discs. Children's audiobooks. lcgft Audiobooks. Davis, Elaina Erika.