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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.

Presents a detailed account of Hawaii's most notorious murder trial, chronicling the social history of Thalia Massie's accusation of five nonwhite men of gang rape, the ensuing trial, its hung jury, and subsequent murder of one of suspects, prompting another trial in defense of the murderers lead by criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow.

Geologist Wendell "Duff" Duffield describes his experiences working at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on the island's K?lauea Volcano from 1969-72.

Traces the development of volcanology in Hawaii and the history of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.