Katie tries to support her grief-stricken parents by performing household chores and cooking, tasks she had formerly despised. Katie realizes why Lynn had taught her the word Kira-Kira, as Lynn wanted her to always look at the world as a shining place and to never lose hope, though there might be harsh hurdles. Sometime later, Katie goes outside to relax only, and when she returns, her father tells her that Lynn had died. Lynn's condition continues to deteriorate and she becomes blank and irritable. However, Lynn relapses from distress when Sammy is caught in a metal animal trap on the vast property owned by Mr. The family decides to move into a house of Lynn's choice to help her recover, which appears to work for a short time. Lynn is eventually diagnosed with lymphoma, and becomes even sicker, and then her friend Amber dumps her, along with Gregg, her boyfriend. However, Lynn starts feeling sporadically fatigued and ill and is diagnosed with anemia. Without Lynn's company, Katie makes friends with a girl called Sylvia "Silly" Kilgore, whose mother also works at the hatchery. Katie also notices Lynn's change in behavior as she starts dabbling in makeup and worrying about beauty. Lynn makes a friend, Amber, and also grows to be a teenager, becoming interested in boys and spending more time with her friends and less time with Katie. When Katie is six years old, her brother Samson (known as Sammy) is born. Her grades are solid average Cs, in comparison to Lynn's ongoing straight As. When Katie enters school, she has difficulty being the only Japanese American in her class. In this period, Lynn is portrayed to be highly sensible and independent, as she teaches Katie to save money for their parents. When they first move to Georgia, Lynn guides Katie around her new surroundings and teaches her to always be positive about things.
They use it to describe things that glitter in their lives. Katie holds close to her heart the Japanese term " Kira-Kira", which Lynn taught her. She cites Lynn's ability to beat their Uncle Katsuhisa, a self-proclaimed chess grand master, at his own game, as an example. Katie's best friend is her older sister Lynn, to whom Katie looks up as the most intelligent person she knows. When the store goes out of business in 1956, the family moves from Iowa to an apartment in Georgia, where Katie's parents work at a hatchery with other Japanese families. In the early 1950s, Katie Takeshima and her family live in Iowa, where her parents own a Japanese supermarket. "Kira-Kira" (キラ キラ in katakana) means glittering or shining. The main character and narrator of the story is a girl named Katie Takeshima, the middle child in a Japanese-American family. The book's plot is about a Japanese-American family living in Georgia. It received the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 2005. Kira-Kira is a young adult novel by Cynthia Kadohata.
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