The mystery of the shark and the poi

The mystery of the shark and the poi
Author: Susan Entz
Publisher: Bess Press
Total Pages: 30
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781573060875

This character education program for young children is based on retellings of ancient Hawaiian legends, but emphasizes universal values. Ready-to-color line drawings. Teacher's guide available.

Pele, the Volcano Goddess

Pele, the Volcano Goddess
Author: Susan Entz
Publisher: Bess Press
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781573060929

This character education program for young children is based on retellings of ancient Hawaiian legends, but emphasizes universal values. Ready-to-color line drawings. Teacher's guide available.

How the Canoe Got Its Sail

How the Canoe Got Its Sail
Author: Susan Entz
Publisher: Bess Press
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1999
Genre: Canoes and canoeing
ISBN: 9781573060882

This character education program for young children is based on retellings of ancient Hawaiian legends, but emphasizes universal values. Ready-to-color line drawings. Teacher's guide available.

The Guardian Owl

The Guardian Owl
Author: Susan Entz
Publisher: Bess Press
Total Pages: 26
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781573060905

This character education program for young children is based on retellings of ancient Hawaiian legends, but emphasizes universal values. Ready-to-color line drawings. Teacher's guide available.

Menehune Mischief

Menehune Mischief
Author: Susan Entz
Publisher: Bess Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1999
Genre: Canoes and canoeing
ISBN: 9781573060912

This character education program for young children is based on retellings of ancient Hawaiian legends, but emphasizes universal values. Ready-to-color line drawings. Teacher's guide available.

With a Book in Their Hands

With a Book in Their Hands
Author: Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0826354777

First Place Winner of the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Literary history is a history of reading. What happens during the act of reading is the subject of the branch of literary scholarship known as reader-response theory. Does the text guide the reader? Does the reader operate independently of the text? Questions like these shape the approach of the essays in this book, edited by a scholar known for his groundbreaking work in using reader-response theory as a window into Chicana and Chicano literature. Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez has overseen several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading practices and experiences. Here he gathers diverse and passionate accounts of reading drawn from that research. For many, books served as refuges from the sorrows of a childhood marked by violence or parental abandonment. Several of the contributors here salute the roles of teachers in introducing poetry and stories into their lives.

Lady Justice Gets Lei'd

Lady Justice Gets Lei'd
Author: Robert Thornhill
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2016-03-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530641314

Walt and Maggie are off to Hawaii to tie the knot, but Lady Justice never takes a break - not even for weddings or vacations. Ancient artifacts, political zealots and a tiny lizard drag the honeymooners from their posh hotel into a sacred burial cave in the caldera of an extinct volcano. Willie and Mary join the newlyweds for a tropical adventure filled with intriguing mystery and off-the-wall humor. Come along and see what happens when Lady Justice Gets Lei'd!

Surviving Paradise

Surviving Paradise
Author: Peter Rudiak-Gould
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781402766640

Just one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching English to its schoolchildren. At first blush, Surviving Paradise is a thoughtful and laugh-out-loud hilarious documentation of Rudiak-Gould’s efforts to cope with daily life on Ujae as his idealistic expectations of a tropical paradise confront harsh reality. But Rudiak-Gould goes beyond the personal, interweaving his own story with fascinating political, linguistic, and ecological digressions about the Marshall Islands. Most poignant are his observations of the noticeable effect of global warming on these tiny, low-lying islands and the threat rising water levels pose to their already precarious existence. An Eat, Pray, Love as written by Paul Theroux, Surviving Paradise is a disarmingly lighthearted narrative with a substantive emotional undercurrent.

One Boy, No Water

One Boy, No Water
Author: Lehua Parker
Publisher: Makena Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1949429024

When you're allergic to water, growing up in Hawaii isn't always paradise. Everybody loves Jay. I love my brother, too. Sometimes I wish I could be him--a surfing star instead of the weird kid allergic to water, the Blalahs' favorite punching bag. But that's not the worst of it. In the middle of the night, I dream. There's a mysterious girl who lives in a magical place and acts like she knows me better than I know myself. We hide from the Man with Too Many Teeth. Some nights I wake up with my heart pounding and the urge to eat raw meat. It's just a dream, right? But then I saw him, the Man with Too Many Teeth, walking along the reef at Piko Point. Not even Jay can protect me now. __________________ One Boy, No Water is Book 1 in the Niuhi Shark Saga trilogy. Told from an indigenous perspective and set in a contemporary Hawaiian world where all the Hawaiian myths and legends are real, the series explores belonging, adoption, being different, bullying, defining family, and learning to turn weaknesses into strengths. Through the series, Zader discovers he's not really a boy allergic to water; he's something much more special, dangerous, and powerful. His adoptive brother Jay discovers what happens when the golden surfing star falls from his pedestal and has to choose to make the long climb back from serious injury. It's the ties that bind and support the brothers that allow them to create their own destinies. As typical local islanders, characters use common Hawaiian and Pidgin words and phrases. The meaning is usually clear from the context, but there is also a Hawaiian & Pidgin Glossary for additional support. Each chapter begins with a related island word or phrase and its definitions. A Discussion Guide for book club or classroom use is included. Free additional classroom support materials are available on www.NiuhiSharkSaga.com. One Boy, No Water, Book 1 in the Niuhi Shark Saga, was a 2017 Nene Award Nominee. The Nene Award is Hawaii's Children's Choice Book Award recognizing outstanding literary works.

Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)

Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)
Author: Colleen Barnett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 2010-12-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1615950109

Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.