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Healing Water: A Hawaiian Story

Book Description
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.
Book Information
PublisherCalkins Creek Books
BindingKindle Edition (3 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages217
ISBN-10B00ODEOKP0
Publication Date01/01/2013
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About Joyce Hostetter (Author) : I write middle grade historical fiction. Diseases seem to be a recurring theme! HEALING WATER (March 08) retells the story of Hawaii's history with leprosy and BLUE (2006) is the story of my hometown'... more
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2/28/2008 Joyce Hostetter said: Healing Water was initially inspired by Father Damien, the priest who chose to live among leprosy patients. But I quickly realized the real story belonged to the Hawaiians who lived and died in the leprosy settlement on Molokai.
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