hawaiians

Examines an early American experiment in multicultural education in which Christian missionaries opened a school for "heathen youth" drawn from all parts of the world, including the Pacific Islands, China, India, and the native nations of North America.

Keo and Sunny meet in Honolulu just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and their developing love affair is ended when America enters into World War II.

A novel that chronicles the history of the Hawaiian people, dramatizing the interactions of Hawaii's original Polynesians, the first missionaries who arrived there, and the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos who intermarried with the Hawaiians and helped shape their culture.

Describes the history of the Hawaiian art of Ni'ihau shell lei making, different types of shells, and different lei making styles, and includes shell lei care and storage instructions.

An illustrated alphabet that focuses on American-English words borrowed from cultures in North, South, and Central America, including abalone, opossum, and zopilote, and providing pronunciation and information on each of the featured words.

When a ten-year-old Hawaiian girl spends more time selling "shave ice" and less time surfing, her relationship with her best friend begins to unravel.

When the tropical paradise of Kauai, Hawaii, fails to impress her cousin from New York City, ten-year-old Kanani wonders why nothing seems to make her happy.

Told in their separate voices, seventeen-year-olds Kate, an Oregon socialite, and Caleb, a Hawaiian who works at Kate's family's hotel, fall deeply in love despite a family feud, and rely on their Christian faith to carry them through.

Concerned that the increasing influence of Americans will make her island's traditional ways disappear, seven-year-old Princess Lydia Liliuokalani commits traditional stories of the Hawaiian people to paper and presents them to King Kamehameha on Restoration Day in 1846.