A finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor! Kira helps track down the paradise parrot, a bird thought to be extinct, and prove that it still exists. While observing the elusive bird, bushfires threaten to wipe out the sanctuary and the parrot's habitat.
There's no choice but to evacuate all the animals. When eleven-year-old Becca, a quadruplet, finds a sick piglet on the side of the road, her life is changed forever. Noah Waisberg and Dr. Alexander Hudek, a lawyer and a computer science Ph. Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future.
Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, she struggles with ever broadening responsibilities in her quest for truth, discovering things that will change her life forever.
Free trial account for registered user. Recent Comments of Kira-Kira. Brittney I dislike writing reviews on books I had a hard time putting it down. Very well written, great characters and I loved the setting! Noah Waisberg and Dr. Alexander Hudek, a lawyer and a computer science Ph.
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It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future.
Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, she struggles with ever broadening responsibilities in her quest for truth, discovering things that will change her life forever. Kira and her mom are spending the summer at a wildlife sanctuary in Australia helping her aunt, a veterinarian, care for the animals. When a health emergency pulls her aunt away, suddenly Kira can't seem to do anything right.
She's put the animals in danger. Can Kira earn back everyone's trust? Kira Brightwell knows how to bring it—whether facing an opponent in the cage, or chasing down a criminal on a case. Finally, four years after her abduction escape, she holds a tenuous link to the Procurer. A link that leaves her with more questions than answers.
Questions that lead to unexpected places. But Kira knows the serial abductor stopped underestimating her a long time ago.
And she needs to tread carefully if she wants to outwit him. The ongoing game of cat-and-mouse between Kira and the Procurer picks up the pace in this suspenseful fourth novel in the Kira Brightwell mystery series by award-winning author, Jacquelyn Smith. Originally published under the pen name Kat Irwin. Can she finally put a face to the name? The past holds secrets in many of her cases.
How far must she go to uncover it? Finally, four years after her abduction escape, a tenuous link to the Procurer. The ongoing game of cat-and-mouse between Kira and the Procurer picks up the pace in this suspenseful fourth novel in the Kira Brightwell mystery series. Trevor knows that Kira does most of the solving, but he likes to think his raw charm and charisma count for something And when the opportunity to prove himself as more than a stunningly handsome sidekick falls into his lap in the form of a beautiful client, how can he possibly refuse?
A short story misadventure of Kira and Trevor from the Kira Brightwell mystery series. But years after graduation, she finds herself walking the familiar hallways once more—thanks to her former tormentor and current sidekick, Trevor Wright.
Will he ever stop making her life difficult? An old friend of his needs help with a problem. The kind only Kira can solve. Assuming she can step up to the challenge. A fun, stand-alone short novel from the Kira Brightwell mystery series. Kira Brightwell never thought it would come to this.
So close! With the origins of the serial abductor known as the Procurer finally unraveled, her nemesis finally seemed within reach Until he pulled the rug out from under her. What are you looking for Book " Kira Kira "? That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason.
And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- kira-kira -- in the future.
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