When thirteen-year-old 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.

Featured in Volume I, Issue 3 of WOW Review.

Related: Hawaii, Historical Fiction, United States, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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• ISBN: 9781590785140
• Author: Moyer Hostetter, Joyce
• Published: 2008, Calkins Creek Books
• Themes: desires, Islands, Revenge, Survival, Villages, Young adult
• Descriptors: Hawaii, Historical Fiction, United States, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 217