hawaii

Rani Patel, almost seventeen and living on remote Moloka'i island, is oppressed by the cultural norms of her Gujarati immigrant parents but when Mark, an older man, draws her into new experiences red flags abound.

Ms. Frizzle takes her class to Hawaii, where they study an active volcano.

In 1937, a schoolteacher on the Island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. Their goal was to become Olympians and the odds were seemingly insurmountable. They were Japanese-Americans, malnourished, barefoot, and had no pool but had to train in filthy irrigation ditches. Their future was the same as their parents'--working in the sugar cane fields and known by their numbered tags, not their names. In their first year the children outraced Olympic athletes twice their size, in their second year they were National and International champs, in their third year they would face their greatest obstacle--the dawning of World War II and the cancellation of the Games. On the battlefield they become the twentieth century's most celebrated heroes, and in 1948, they had one last chance for Olympic glory.

As sixteen-year-old Leilani and her family learn to live without electronics, farming the land as her ancestors did, she finds strength in her relatives, her strange connection to the Emerald Orchid - a being whose presence caused global devastation - and her friendship with Aukina, but suffers regret over what she had to do to survive.

Profiles the life and career of Daniel Inouye, son of Japanese immigrants, who became the first Japanese American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

Have you been good? Santa is coming to town! Read about what happens to Santa when he comes to Hawaii.

Presents two books in one introducing children to the holidays of May Day and Lei Day, and describes why they are celebrated, what traditions are associated with each, and how they differ.

Calvin and his friends have the opportunity to earn some money by appearing as extras in a zombie movie being filmed on a nearby beach.

Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat.

As sixteen-year-old Leilani and her family learn to live without electronics, farming the land as her ancestors did, she finds strength in her relatives, her strange connection to the Emerald Orchid--a being whose presence caused global devastation--and her friendship with Aukina but suffers regret over what she had to do to survive.