Yamanaka, Lois-Ann
Summary: "Claire sees lava, sandy beaches, and undersea coral reefs] on her island of Hawai'i. Yet she dreams of snow falling from the sky, snowflakes melting on her tongue, and most of all, building a snowman. See how Claire's dreams become 'real' as she learns to appreciate the island she call home"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me a World 2021
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Summary: Calvin tries to earn money to buy Stella, the babysitter, a present for her sixteenth birthday because he feels guilty for taking advantage of her allergy to cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SALSalisbury, Graham.
Summary: Nine-year-old Calvin catches the attention of the school bully on the day before he starts fourth grade, while at home, the unfriendly, fifteen-year-old daughter of his mother's best friend has taken over his room.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALAckerman, Sara
Summary: In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Daisy Wilder enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the Women's Air Raid Defense (WARD) guides pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. Not everyone thinks the women are up to the job, and the new recruits meet resistance and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACKTurtledove, Harry.
Summary: Following the December 7, 1941 Japanese assault on U.S. naval forces in Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces invade Hawaii, planning to use the islands' resources to launch an offensive against the western coast of the continental United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURYamanaka, Lois-Ann
Summary: A tale of growing up Japanese-American in Hawaii. The narrator is Lovey Nariyoshi, a girl from a poor family who dreams of becoming white. In the course of everyday events, she describes a society where she can find no reflection of her own culture, a state of affairs which gives her an inferiority complex. A look at the reality behind the hype of multiculturalism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAMPatterson, James
Summary: Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears and LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller, gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil in this heart-pounding story of beauty and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PATPoe, Mayumi Shimose
Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019
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Summary: "Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there's a lot she doesn't understand. She's never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse, unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have started to grow, creating fractures whose origins are somehow entangled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAKGeorge, Kaylin Melia
Summary: Since the day that Ano was born, her heart has been connected to her home. But, this adventurous child has a lot to learn! When Ano begins to dance hula -- a storytelling dance form that carries the knowledge, history, and folklore of the Hawaiian people -- Ano comes to understand the true meaning of aloha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEOLoomis, Ilima
Summary: In this cumulative rhyme in the style of "The House That Jack Built," a family celebrates Hawaii and its culture while serving poi at a luau.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LOOYamanaka, Lois-Ann
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAMPark, Barbara.
Summary: Aloha-ha-ha: Excitable Junie B. Jones manages to find trouble both before and during a trip to Hawaii and records each incident in a photo journal given to her by her teacher. Jingle bells, Batman smells : Junie B. Jones wishes that May would stop being such a tattletale, but when she is stuck as May's Secret Santa it becomes real trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC PARKeene, Carolyn
Summary: Vacationing on the Big Island of Hawaii with friends George and Bess, elementary school student Nancy Drew searches for clues in the case of the missing camera.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KEEGunn, Robin Jones
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNBowman, Akemi Dawn
Summary: Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Ellen travels to Hawaii to help her best friend, but quickly finds herself torn between a new love and her family in Indiana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUKeller, Nora Okja.
Summary: A Korean woman's life as a sex slave for the Japanese during World War II. The novel is narrated in part by the mother, in part by her American daughter who is a newspaper reporter in Hawaii. Not until her mother's death did the daughter learn what terrible experiences lay behind the screams her mother uttered in her dreams. A first novel by a Korean-American.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELCrichton, Michael
Summary: A history-making volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the military is more terrifying than the volcano.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: "Seven graduate students are recruited by a microbiology start-up and dispatched to a mysterious lab in Hawaii. There they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness where they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRIPatterson, James
Summary: Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears and LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller, gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil in this heart-pounding story of beauty and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATPatterson, James
Summary: Supermodel Syd disappears while on a photo shoot in Hawaii. LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins is conducting his own research into the case, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATSalisbury, Graham.
Summary: When his teacher asks him to write a persuasive argument about something he really wants, fourth-grader Calvin creates a unique way to express his desire for a dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SALClark, Carol Higgins.
Summary: Setting out for a last adventure with best friend Kit before her nuptials, Regan Reilly heads off to the Hawaiian islands, where the murder of a young woman involves Reilly in a multi-island investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005