Beauty Equals Goodness: Hank Garvin, one of the few whites in the story who don't discriminate against the Takeshima family and the man who drives Sammy to the hospital after getting stuck in a bear trap.Awful Truth: Katie being woken up to be told that Lynn passed away.Always Someone Better: Lynn plays this to Katie, as the former gets straight "A's", while the latter gets "C's".Aloof Big Sister: Downplayed, but Lynn, as she enters her teens, makes a new friend, is interested in boys, and so spends less time with Katie.After her parents move from Iowa to Georgia to get jobs at chicken hatcheries, Lynn develops anemia and later lymphoma.ĭo not confuse with the Japanese Visual Novel Kira-Kira. Taking place in the 1950s, the story revolves around Katie Takeshima, a Japanese-American girl who looks up to her sister, Lynn, because she reminds Katie to always look at the bright side of life by knowing that the future is always glittering: kira-kira. A novel by Cynthia Kadohata that won the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature in 2005.
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