Kira-kira by Kadohata, Cynthia 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004)

BTSB #: 505420 Available

Dewey: FAges: 11-14   
AR: 4.7 MG RC: 5.8 6-8 Lexile: 740 F&P: T

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Sisters - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Japanese Americans - Fiction Death - Fiction Georgia - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s, and the despair felt when one sister becomes terminally ill.

Mirror girls by McWilliams, Kelly 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2023)

BTSB #: 631033 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: Family Life Multicultural Supernatural

Subjects: Racially mixed people - Fiction Twins - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Ghosts - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Georgia - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.