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Author:
Hostetter, Joyce.
Title:
Healing water : an Hawaiian story / Joyce Moyer Hostetter.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Calkins Creek,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
217 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Leprosy--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Molokai (Hawaii)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Hawaii--History--To 1893--Fiction.
Leprosy--Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Molokai (Hawaii)--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction.
Hawaii--History--To 1893--Juvenile fiction.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216).
Summary:
When teenaged Pia is sent to Hawaii's leprosy settlement on Molokai Island in the 1860s, he chooses anger and self-reliance as his means of survival, but the faithful example of other villagers and one remarkable priest threaten to destroy his desire for revenge.
ISBN:
1590785142 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781590785140 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2007018349
Locations:
RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

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