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Of course LM_NET was the right place to go -- my colleague is sure I'm a =
veritable fountain of knowledge.   I have a sneaking suspicion that I've =
missed at least one answer, but I know it won't re-appear until I send =
this... thanks bunches, folks!

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Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (set in S. Pacific Island, middle =
school level reading... s a Newbery Medal book ... GREAT BOOK!)

 Blue Skin of the Sea by Graham Salisbury (set in Hawaii and middle school =
level)

 Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury (set in Hawaii, about =
relationship between
 Japanese-American and Caucasian boys during WWII/Pearl Harbor ... upper =
elementary reading  level)

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Hawaii by Michener?
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 Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury
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Leaving one-foot island, and, Return to one-foot island, both by Graeme =
Lay.
 About an island girl who goes to NZ for schooling, and doesn't find it =
easy
 to adjust.  I haven't read the second, but I guess it is about either how
 she gets back home, or how she copes once there.
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The very best book I've seen recently is Graham Salisbury's
 _Lord of the Deep_, about Hawaiians today in various mixes & minglings. =
It's
 an _excellent_ story.
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"Name me nobody" by Lois-Ann Yamanaka

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Pene du Bois, William.
    The twenty one balloons. -- New York : Puffin Books, 1947.
    Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman =
Sherman,
 who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the =
volcanic
 eruption of Krakatoa andis eventually picked up in the Atlantic.

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