>Cynthia Kadohata's Kira-Kira
This won the Newbury a couple of years ago, so I figured it'd be a good read, which for the most part it was. I just don't remember most Newbury books being so depressing! Anyway, this is the story of a little Japanese girl living in Georgia in the late 1950s/early 1960s. As if her life wasn't hard enough, her older sister gets sick and the family begins to fall apart. Hilariously, the reader's guide in the back uses questions the protagonist is assigned for a book report (i.e., "What is the theme of this story?"). B+.
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