Moloka'i
By: Alan Brennert.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Women -- Hawaii -- Fiction; Leprosy -- Patients -- Fiction; Kalaupapa (Hawaii) -- Fiction; Molokai (Hawaii) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy settlement on the island of Molokaʻi. Here her life is supposed to end - but instead she discovers it is only just beginning"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 388).