Healing water
By: Joyce Moyer Hostetter.
Publisher: Calkins Creek
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honesdale, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781590785140
Subjects: Leprosy -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Molokai (Hawaii) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Hawaii -- History -- To 1893 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When teenaged Moki 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.