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: 9781590785140 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1590785142.Subject(s): Leprosy -- Juvenile fiction | Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | Molokai (Hawaii) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction | Hawaii -- History -- To 1893 -- Juvenile fiction | Leprosy -- Fiction | Conduct of life -- Fiction | Molokai (Hawaii) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Hawaii -- History -- To 1893 -- Fiction | Historical fiction | 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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216).
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