Kira-Kira is a beautiful piece of writing. I love how it is from the perspective of a nine year old because it shows us what life growing up in that time was like for her The author Cynthia Kadohata did an amazing job on this book. Have you ever been treated differently because of your heritage? Did your best friend/sister die when you were young? In this book a little girl named Katie goes through all of this. Instead, I was glad the book was finally over. The ending could have also wrung some sadness out of me had I any interest or emotional attachment to the characters. The author probably excels at writing adults, and I'm interested in reading a book from that POV. Children don't think in those terms, wouldn't use those words, and don't describe things like that. The book lacks coherency until the character hits her teen years, and the tone is all wrong for a child. The author starts the book by writing in the first-person POV of a young child and does miserably at it. They alternate between being Big Lipped Alligator Moments (credit goes to Nostalgia Chick for the term) and Roads to Nowhere (credit goes to Das Mervin of Das Sporking for the term). There are over a dozen subplots in this novel, and only one is ever explored for more than two pages. This could have been a heartbreaking drama, but the author padded her word count, detracted from plot in an attempt to set up more bland setting and uninteresting-everything. The author has an astonishing ability to make interesting settings, time periods and concepts completely boring. I am seeking out other works of the author because -this- was her debut into middle-grade fiction, and I want to read other works in case she was simply out of her depth with this. I live in Southern California with my teenage son and longtime boyfriend.It is with a heavy heart that I write the following review. It was not easy to drop out-of Hollywood High School-but I don’t regret it and learned many things, the hard way for sure. And both of you might later attend an Ivy League graduate school, as I did. One of you might be a straight-A kid, and another might be a kid who drops out of high school as I did. I have attended quite a few schools and dropped out of a few as well. She didn’t have enough food, but she didn’t think about that, because, she says, “I was surrounded by love.” I felt very safe as a young child because of the love of my parents and the presence of my siblings. She spoke of being deported to Japan with her family after the war. There was a woman I interviewed for A Place to Belong. I have an older sister and a younger brother, born in Arkansas. I was born in Chicago in 1956, when my mother was newly 21 and my late father was 30. My parents were both born in California and had difficult, impoverished childhoods, and, later, difficult yet rewarding lives.
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