hawaii

"In Hawaii, seventeen-year-old Jaya Mehta is a transgender outsider with depressive tendencies and the stunningly beautiful Rasa Santos thinks sex is her only power. Will their love transcend and pull them forward or will they remain stuck, separate, in the chaos of their pasts?"--.

An introduction to the wildlife, history, and culture of Hawaii.

"Journeying back in time to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Hawaii, class clown Kai and his crush, Maria, meet an ancestor who was the first to emigrate from Japan, a reunion that is challenged by the nefarious schemes of Tim Raveltere."--OCLC.

In graphic novel format, retells the Hawaiian story of Nanaue, born of human mother and shark father, who struggles to find his place in a village of humans.

Lea Lane has always felt caught in the middle of two worlds--that of Hawaii, and that of the Mainland. Her actress mother casts a large shadow, but things begin to turn for Lea in her junior high school year. She somehow makes friends with Will and Whitney West, spending more and more time at the prominent family's guest cottage. She begins to wonder if she might become more than friends with Will, but it is with Whitney that the most surprises come, and a deep friendship unlike anything Lea or Whitney have ever had develops.

"Barbie and her sisters search for their puppies when they go missing at the Dancing Horse Festival"--OCLC.

Explores the history, geography, and culture of Hawaii.

In 1836, fourteen-year-old Patience Goodspeed, daughter of a ship's captain, is unexpectedly sent to a boarding school along with her brother when danger arrives at sea, and she soon suspects that her etiquette teacher is seeking out her father for a husband.

In 1960, twelve-year-old Peggy Sue and her family move to the island of Oahu, and she is finding it anything but paradise, because from the first day at school she is bullied and made fun of by the Hawaiian children, and she is worried sick about her beloved cat who is in mandatory quarantine--and then the tsunami hits Hilo where her parents have gone on business.

"After a devastating earthquake, a teen and her family are threatened by yet another disaster. A tsunami destroys their house. Their life in paradise is shaken as they try to survive the next blow"--.