Healing water : an Hawaiian story

• Tác giả: Joyce Moyer Hostetter
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 813 American fiction in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Honesdale, Pa. : Calkins Creek, 2008.
• Mô tả vật lý: 217 p. ; , 22 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 115431
• Chủ đề: 1. Conduct of life; 2. Hawaii--History--To 1893; 3. Leprosy; 4. Molokai (Hawaii)--History--19th century

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216).

Tóm tắt

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 example of other villagers and one remarkable priest threaten to destroy his desire for revenge.