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1) Eruption
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Regan Reilly mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private detective Regan Reilly, recently engaged to be married, agrees to accompany her friend Kit to Hawaii for one last girls' weekend, but her professional services are demanded when the body of an employee of the Waikiki Waters Playground and Resort washes ashore and the manager has cause to believe the woman was murdered.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bonnie faces a bleak winter alone, with her divorce looming. A welcome escape comes when Claire invites her to Maui to help launch an exciting new business: a quilter's retreat set at a bed and breakfast amid the vibrant colors and balmy breezes of the Hawaiian Islands.
5) Heroes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...
Author
Publisher
Willam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam's fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster,...
7) Hawai'i
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
©2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Introduces the geography, history, government, people, culture, and attractions of Hawaii.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion ... she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas. Olive braces herself for...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The mischievous, shape-shifting Pig-Boy gets in trouble with both the King and Pele, the goddess of fire, but always manages to slip away as his grandmother has told him to do.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"1943. As war in the Pacific rages on, Isabel Cooper and her codebreaker colleagues huddle in “the dungeon” at Station HYPO in Pearl Harbor, deciphering secrets plucked from the airwaves in a race to bring down the enemy. Isabel has only one wish: to avenge her brother’s death. But she soon finds life has other plans when she meets his best friend, a hotshot pilot with secrets of his own. 1965. Fledgling journalist Lu Freitas comes home to Hawai'i...
Author
Publisher
BeachHouse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Hiʻiaka, Pele's sister and the patron goddess of Hawaiʻi and hula, saves the people of Waipiʻo Valley from a powerful, destructive wind that is blowing away houses, plants, and trees. Using her lightning pāʻū (skirt), she battles the great wind and summons rain, lightning, and thunder to diminish the wind and force him into a cave where he remains to this day"--Page 4 of cover
15) Max
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
17) Moloka'i
Author
Series
Moloka'i volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family's 1890s Honolulu home when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her to reenter the world.
19) Hawaii
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In-depth look at the state's history, people, land, economy. and government.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In comic book format, describes the Japanese surprise attack, including Japanese worries about a U.S. strike from Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the West Virginia, and the American entry into World War II that followed.
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