Okay. Here's my review of Kira-Kira. On the opening paragraph, we knew that the sister was going to die. We knew the chapter she was going to die in. I knew that nothing was going to happen in this book besides someone dying and a kid trying to deal with it at the end. Why? Because this book is formulaic.
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but in the past handful of Newberry Award books we've read, it feels like this is the same theme that's repeated in most of them. Walk Two Moons followed this same formula as did Bridge to Terabithia. However, I liked Bridge and I couldn't stand Walk. Looking over the list of Newberry Medal winners, I guess not as many as I thought followed this pattern, but it feels like if you've read one, you've read them all. Or maybe I'm bitter because I lived through the experience of loosing someone I was close to, and it's not like this.
Why is it that a 12 year old in the 50-60's doesn't know that cancer KILLS? Why don't her parents tell her? Why is it that nothing happens in this book and I played video games through the whole thing, only catching one in every 4 words and still understood the whole book? The most redeeming part of the book is the last two chapters. Maybe the last one chapter.
Sorry. This book is the dumps. If you want a good Newberry book, go read Crispin, Despereaux, Holes, View from Saturday, Giver or any of the other ORIGINAL Newberry winners out there.
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