The release date for the English version of 'Kira-Kira' by
Cynthia Kadohata is Dec 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Shining and dazzling, kira-kira (kee ra kee ra). dazzling. Lynn, the sister of Katie Takeshima, presents things that way. The sky is kira-kira, or deeply colored yet translucent at the same time. For the same reason that the water is kira-kira, so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family relocate to the Deep South of Georgia from a Japanese community in Iowa, Lynn is the one who explains to Katie why people stop to stare on the street. Lynn also teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow with her unique perspective on life. However, when Lynn becomes terminally ill and the family starts to fall apart, Katie must find a way to tell them all that there is always something glittering, or kira-kira, in the future.