Category: fiction

Ho’onani: Hula Warrior
by Heather Gale (Author) and Mika Song (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Ho’onani feels in-between. She doesn’t see herself as wahine (girl) OR kane (boy).She’s happy to be in the middle. But not everyone sees it that way.

When Ho’onani finds out that there will be a school performance of a traditional kane hula chant, she wants to be part of it. But can a girl really lead the all-male troupe? Ho’onani has to try . . . Based on a true story

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Aunt Pearl
by Monica Kulling (Author) and Irene Luxbacher (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Aunt Pearl arrives one day pushing a shopping cart full of her worldly goods. Her sister Rose has invited her to come live with her family.

Six-year-old Marta is happy to meet her aunt, who takes her out to look for treasure on garbage day, and who shows her camp group how to decorate a coffee table with bottle caps. But almost immediately, Pearl and Rose start to clash — over Pearl’s belongings crammed into the house, and over Rose’s household rules. As the weeks pass, Pearl grows quieter and more withdrawn, until, one morning, she is gone.

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