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One of the better Newberry Award books I've read so far this year. I'm honestly getting a bit bored by them. They're all very similar and seem to have the same agenda, which is a bit annoying. But, I'm still going to try and read them all by January - listening to them makes them a little more enjoyable. 

Katie and her sister Lynn move from their Japanese community to southern Georgia. It's Lynn who is always Katie's best friend, it's Lynn who tells Katie why the other white people in her first grade class won't talk to her. It's Lynn that first grows up and gets a new best friend and gets crushes on boys. Lynn was the one that told her "Kira-Kira" making the world all glittery and nice. But then Lynn gets sick and everything changes. 

I really loved the beginning of this books. A simple touching story about sisters loving one another so much. With that bit of history and how hard it was to live in the south and be of color. 

But then it turned a bit depressing. And pretty much took a turn I didn't want it to go. I suppose I'd recommend this to a family looking for a book dealing with grieving or the time point in history.