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Read it twice. very thoughtful story of a young girl growing up in post-war America when Japanese Americans were not treated very well.


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KiraKira Cynthia Kadohata 9780689856402 Books Reviews

This was a great book and I would definitely recommend it to everyone who likes to read about how families over come tragedies throughout their lives.
What an amazing piece of children's literature! I highly recommend it for all ages of people! There are some sad events in the book, but that's what makes it so amazing!
This book is is one of the greatest books of all time. It almost made me cry (I almost never cry) it describes the hardships of working to pay off bills and how fast your life can go downhill I love this book it is now a fav
Summer reading material. Good book.
Right off the top I want to say that you can never really go wrong with a Newbery Award winner. I've read nearly all of them and I've never been disappointed, even as I head into the second half of my fourth decade. Any book that's good enough for your children should be good enough for you too.

That being said, this is not one of my favorites among the Newbery's. Kadohata is excellent at convincingly telling this story from the point of view of a young child and this story of Japanese-Americans struggling to get by in the deep South with a very ill child is a good one; however, I felt very much like I knew where this story was going and I occasionally felt my emotions were being manipulated by the author. I wept the required tears but I didn't feel satisfied.

Still, I'm fond of the occasional tear-jerker and, if you are too, then this book is a good place to go.
Kadohata's book is an extraordinary contribution to young adult literature. The story is about a Japanese family trying to assimilate into American Society. Most of the book takes place in a small town in Georgia. There are only 36 Japanese people in the whole town. All of them work at the chicken hatchery.

The book is narrated by a young girl of about 10 through 13. She tells innocently, yet with realization, the truths about the prejudice that she encounters, and that her family encounters. In the course of the tale, the deepest and most intimate feelings and concerns are expressed. The feelings of Katie, the protagonist with respect to her sister Lynnie are particularly precious. Lynnie had lymphoma and was slowly dying. Katie reacts to this mostly in a very good way. But occasionally, she slips in her own eyes in terms if her personal ethics and morality.

While many books have been written about oppressed minorities, in America, we usually don't consider Orientals as an oppressed minority. Yet even in America today, we surely have plenty of xenophobia and prejudice. The story goes around and around in America; over and over and over again.

This book is recommended for all those readers who wish to have a truly personal experience in terms of American integration. This book is a very fine offering.
I didn't know that this book was intended for a younger audience when I purchased it. There was something about this book that drew me in, however. Without giving away the story, the author presents a well-written, often overlooked presentation of what it means to be Asian in American society. With themes of pride, family strife, and societal prejudice, this book was an enjoyable read with a beautiful ending.
Read it twice. very thoughtful story of a young girl growing up in post-war America when Japanese Americans were not treated very well.