hawaii

"Introduces the life and achievements of the surfer who won international fame in four Olympics and used his surfboard to save eight people from a capsized boat in California"--OCLC.

"A high-altitude blizzard, bubbling rivers of lava, and beaches with raging surf; one thing's for sure: The Hawaiian Islands offer no shortage of adventure! Teaming up with fellow explorer, Alana Aukai, thrill-seeking twins Gannon and Wyatt begin an expedition to study rarely visited parts of this Pacific paradise"--Back cover.

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.

"[Relates the history] of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii--its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers--a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values"--Provided by publisher.

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.