Healing water : a Hawaiian story / Joyce Moyer Hostetter.
by Hostetter, Joyce.
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BookPublisher: Honesdale, Pa. : Calkins Creek, c2008Edition: 1st ed.Description: 217 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1590785142.Subject(s): Leprosy -- Fiction | Conduct of life -- Fiction | Molokai (Hawaii) -- History -- Fiction | Hawaii -- History -- Fiction | Historical fictionDDC classification: [Fic] 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 examples of other villagers and one remarkable priest threaten to destroy his desire for revenge.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216).
School Library Journal, July 2008
Library Media Connection starred, August 2008
Horn Book, October 2008
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), May 2008
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2008
Kirkus Review, April 2008
Multicultural Review, September 2008
Catholic Library World, September 2008
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 examples of other villagers and one remarkable priest threaten to destroy his desire for revenge.
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