Kira-kira

Kira-Kira

Kira-Kira is a young adult novel by Cynthia Kadohata. It won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 2005. The book's plot is about a Japanese-American family living in Georgia. The main character and narrator of the story is a girl named Katie, a member of the Japanese-American family. "Kira-kira" (きらきら in hiragana) means sparkling, glittering, or shiny.