Books like Kira-kira
Kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata reads as poignant, hopeful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
One crazy summer
Rita Williams-Garcia · 2010
Shares the escape thread
70% genome match
The clay marble
Minfong Ho · 1991
Shares the escape thread
71% genome match
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
The mighty Miss Malone
Christopher Paul Curtis · 2012
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
All the days past, all the days to come
Mildred D. Taylor · 2020
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
The kite fighters
Linda Sue Park · 2000
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
Inside Out & Back Again
Thanhha Lai · 2011
Shares the escape thread
83% genome match
From the notebooks of Melanin Sun
Jacqueline Woodson · 1995
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
145th Street
Walter Dean Myers · 2000
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
Rebound
Kwame Alexander · 2018
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
Forged by fire
Sharon M. Draper · 1997
Shares the escape thread
69% genome match
The carnival at Bray
Jessie Ann Foley · 2014
Shares the escape thread
78% genome match
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