Title: The Hawaiian Island of Mokoka'i
Description: Hawaiian Adventure
YA (young adult)
The author calls it her boy book--her Tommy book!
"My nephew came to visit me for a week, and stayed a year!
I based this character around his actual mannerisms."

It's a fun, and funny story, but it will break your heart at times. And it intertwines with his sister's novel: Ni'ihua.

**In chapter one:** Tommy finishes college on the mainland, in Ohio, and returns to ranch life on Moloka'i.
Being a metrosexual (dresses nice, styles hair, and stays extremely clean) he has hands-on issues with farm life.
Wanting to drive a sportscar instead of a working vehicle, just won't cut it on a working farm.
Tommy's young, a bit immature, and has *a lot* to learn. And of course he's completely distracted, by chasing a girl!
Subjects: Moloka'i, Front Street Maui, Oahu, Ohio
Places: Ka'anapali Beach Hotel, The Grand Wailea, The Melting Pot in lahaina, Barnes and Noble, Maui, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Kent State University, Seattle
People: Characters: Tommy Malino and his Saint Bernard: Chalet. Ice Princess, Chelsea and Lehua Malino, Nakoa, Karlie, Koa and Malea Malino
Time periods: 2009-2010